Pastoral Ponderings

Extra! Extra!  Read all about it! Congregational Worship Services Suspended Dear God,      Come on, admit it God.  Haven’t you once, just once, prayed for a “snow day”?       Remember when you were a kid (Well, maybe all the human

Dear God,    Your world is in the midst of a crisis.  Surprisingly, there are still people who say this is a crisis created or made worse by “The Media.”  Since “The Media” has become a favorite whipping boy for

             Dear God,              You may have heard that I’m retiring.              Actually, I know it sounds funny to some people, but I believe you’ve been telling me to do so. My prayer life, even in it’s worst days, is

Dear God,      What will the New Year bring? We’ll see.      There’s a parable I’ve read many times over the years which helps me to place all things in perspective and look at life with a sense of allowing

Dear God,      As I write this, we stand a scant four weeks before Christmas. Amazing!      I’m thinking of something you can get me for Christmas, Lord: a Dick Tracy-styled time gadget for my wrist. It needs to be

Dear God,              So, imagine this. I, me, Dan Herman, The Amazing One (i.e. “What were you thinking?” to my parents), the Thing (to my sisters), Thor (to the carpenters who saw me wield a hammer), Hercules (to my children),

Dear God, Six years old is not old! That’s what I told the computer guy when he told me Carm’s “old” Apple laptop wasn’t worth fixing. Six years old! He said, “I might be able to fix it, if I

Dear God,    “Well, hello Grace.”    Have you ever done something un-graceful and ended up with the name “Grace” for a while?    It’s all in good fun and the name is usually earned as a result of temporary

Dear God,   Do you ever get things mixed up?   Actually, in my humble opinion, I think it might have happened once or twice to you. For instance, why can’t every bird fly…such as an ostrich…but some squirrels can…aside

  Dear God,      I will die one day. That is the fundamental reality of life. Well actually, there are two fundamental realities of life: we all suffer and we will all die. (Well actually, there are three fundamental realities