Recent Entries

• My Dance with Depression

  by Rev. Renee Paddock March 6, 2017
  Sharing with the hopes that my experience will be helpful to others.I have a good life - especially compared to some - but there have been a lot of things weighing on me personally and professionally over the course of several years,  - Let's just say that it is not a good idea to live in a con...
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• Spiritual Harvest at Autumn Equinox

  by Rev. Renee Paddock January 22, 2017
  This sermon was delivered in the fall of 2013   Iroquois Thanksgiving Prayer We return thanks to our mother,the earth, which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams,which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs,which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases. ...
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• In for Winter Out for Spring

  by Rev. Renee Paddock January 15, 2017
  I've been revisiting some of the sermons I've written in the past few years, and will be posting some of them here to invite discussion.This one is called In for Winter Out for Spring and was written in 2014.   I know you’ll all be surprised by this, but I’ve been running on empty...
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• My "Word" for 2017

  by Rev. Renee Paddock January 8, 2017
  A couple of years or so ago, some of my friends started doing a "theme" word for the year, rather than a "resolution". Since many resolutions take on a negative connotation of what to NOT do; the "word of the year" puts a more positive spin on it of what you want to bring in or concentrate on in the...
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• In Praise of Darkness

  by Rev. Renee Paddock December 29, 2016
  I found this piece when researching a homily - it spoke very strongly to me so I wanted to share it. In Praise of Darkness Barbara Brown Taylor Christianity has never had anything nice to say about the dark.“Darkness” is shorthand for anything that scares me — that I want nopart...
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• Solstice 2016

  by Rev. Renee Paddock December 24, 2016
  Solstice Meditations 2016   Each year from June 21 until December 21 or thereabouts the amount of light every day gets shorter. And from September through February the darkness is noticeably greater than the light. We are used to this. Some of us barely note it except maybe when it creeps up ...
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• All That Noise!!!!!!!

  by Rev. Renee Paddock July 1, 2016
  One of the greatest necessities in America Is to discover creative solitude. Carl Sandburg     In March, I gave a service titled "All that Noise" it was about distraction and overload  - technological and otherwise - in modern daily life. One of my research articles was from Harva...