Tag: Sorrow
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Misericordias Domini (2nd Sunday After Easter) ~ 14th April 2024
The following sermon was not an easy one for me to write, and I’m still not sure how much I like it or how happy I am with it. But I got a fair bit of positive feedback from women from both congregations where I preached this past Sunday. One thing in particular stuck with…
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When Hope Seems Lost…
It’s Friday night and I am sitting here on my couch in the comfort and safety of my four walls. It feels like the weight of the world is resting in my shoulders. 2024 is barely a month old. Yet so much has already happened. More than I can keep track of. The war in…
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Feeling Seen
I think I always carved being seen. Yet I also did my best to be invisible. Especially in school and at uni. After all, if you are invisible, you are less of a target. Few people mock you for being different, for being who you are if they don’t even notice you in the first…
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Some More Personal Thoughts Regarding Mother’s Day
As I mentioned in my earlier post, Mother’s Day is a difficult day for me. A lot of that has to do with the difficult relationship I have to my mother. So seeing adds and posts and all that about great mother-daughter-relationships and wonderful mothers is pretty painful. It is painful because my mother is…
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Good Friday – Karfreitag
The English name for this days focuses on the hope and the good that came from the darkness. The German name is very different. As so many words in my native language this noun is made of two nouns (fun side note: in German you can add an indefinite number of nouns together to create…