Posts by Martha Brunell

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Web Notes When We Are Scattered – August 6, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Story Power Dear Mayfield, Seventy-five years ago today, August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan. Sadako Sasaki was two years old at the time and living with her family about a mile from Hiroshima’s ground zero. The force of the blast threw her through a window. When her mother […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – August 4, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Surprise Buds, a new beginning, the thrill of spring, on the Anne Frank sapling, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA, late February 2019. There are thirteen saplings from Anne Frank’s chestnut tree planted on twelve sites across the United States in addition to all the others now flourishing near and far. Surprise 76 years ago today, […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – July 31, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Physically Distanced but Spiritually Connected A Quiet Place At the beginning of Sunday’s gospel, we read that Jesus went away to a quiet place. Dear Mayfield, Diana has recently shared with us that now is the time to come to the Waystation. She is right. The combination and quantity of blooms, colors, and pollinators are amazing.  For […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – July 28, 2020

by Martha Brunell

A Single Bloom a single bloom on a native prairie plant at North Pond Nature Sanctuary Dear Mayfield, Our two web notes this week are lodged between last Sunday’s gospel of small things — seeds and yeast and next Sunday’s story of the feeding of the 5000. Both webnotes will move us toward the energy and […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – July 24, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Physically Distanced but Spiritually Connected Considering Habitat one plant — several phases — from bud not yet open to after the seeding Dear Mayfield, This picture that I just discovered on my walk this morning reminds me of the life of a congregation. A snapshot of any congregation at a certain moment reveals people in varied […]

Web Notes for When We Are Scattered – July 22, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Physically Distanced but Spiritually Connected The Center That Holds Storm damage the day after — an old branch falls Dear Mayfield, In this web note I’m taking a look at the concept of the center that holds from four perspectives including the natural world, a contemporary person, a biblical personality, and a spiritual practice.  The […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – July 17, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Physically Distanced but Spiritually Connected Soul Food A recent contribution to our ongoing chalk talk at church.  Thank you Sue. This is…how we inhabit the soul on Earth through a messy human life, living tenderly and authentically enough that we can be who we are everywhere and create a path to what matters.  (Mark Nepo, […]