The year has flown by and once again we find ourselves at Autumn. I have always enjoyed Autumn, especially as a child growing up in North Carolina where summer and its humidity seemed to last so long. Autumn brought bright sunny days amid the crisp fall temperatures and even though the leaves of the trees were … Continue reading Thanksgiving Comes Again, 2025
I first wrote this poem during September of 2020, during the pandemic. My sleep patterns changed and I began to watch the sky at night. The words for this poem came to me on the night of the full September moon, which is called the full corn moon, or for many, the green corn moon … Continue reading When Sleep Does Not Seem Important
Written for Jack Jack’s baptism May 17th 2025, Berkeley Springs, WV Dear Jack Jack, Months ago, your mother asked me to do something very special for you. She wanted me to knit a special shawl so that we could wrap it around you at your baptism and so that you would have it always to remind … Continue reading From a Gramm’s Heart
January 2025 Dear Beloved Jack Jack! I am writing this letter to tell you the story of one of the gifts that you received this past Christmas. You were not very alert when your mother opened it. She and your father knew exactly what it was. They knew that it was coming and that it … Continue reading Dear Jack: the first letter from Gramma
I wrote something along these lines and posted it here several years ago, but my life has changed dramatically since I first wrote it. Yours has too, I imagine. So, I find myself revisiting my thoughts for different congregations and different groups of people. I invite you to join me and ponder as well, in … Continue reading Feeling the Spirit…These Days
There it is againThe Holy murmurings The indistinct, low, morning whispersOf the Holy One of Sacred SilenceOf the One who out of the early quietSings lyrical melodiesOf the One who is the cool refreshing water And gentle breezes Of the not yet completed sunriseOf what will be an impossibly hot and fierce dayIt is the … Continue reading Summer Murmurings
Today, I am slow of mind and heart. At least that is what it feels like. I think I really need a vacation–some time off to renew before Lent begins. That seems so funny to say since we are not even finished with Christmas yet, but Lent is early this year–Feb. 14. I want some … Continue reading Thursday Musings at Year’s beginning
I sat down yesterday to write my monthly letter to my congregation and decided that I was “all written out.” I have written so many words in the last several months–working on my Doctor of Ministry project and final thesis–that I felt like I had nothing left to say and perhaps that is still true. … Continue reading Paying Attention
The last several Sundays, I have been preaching from the Jeremiah texts, the weeping prophet that warned the Hebrew people about the exile they would experience in the days and years to come. They had been warned many times about living justly and lovingly as God instructed them to do, but they didn’t listen, and … Continue reading Hope in Exile
The time has come when I need to really consider that what I feel called to do in the completion of my doctorate degree is something that the church needs. When it comes right down to it, I know that it is important. It is something that I have felt drawn to for years. How can we … Continue reading The Time Has Come…
prayers of my heart, a collection of articles and writings by C. Alicia Randolph 