by Kathy Hurt | Sep 4, 2023 | Reflections |
I recently came way too close to a tornado, close enough to be in the swirl of debris a tornado accumulates along its path, close enough to narrowly miss having a tree dropped on my car. As is often the case when one skates near disaster, the tornado encounter has...
by Kathy Hurt | Aug 24, 2023 | Reflections |
As a minister, I believe that keeping promises is crucial and hold it as one of my highest values. Within a congregation, covenants—which are a series of promises the people in a congregation make to one another—serve to bind individuals together in a community. ...
by Kathy Hurt | Aug 14, 2023 | Reflections |
Two friends and I have been reading and discussing The Inner Work of Aging by Connie Zweig. We recently completed a chapter that invited the exercise of a life review, in which one considers all that one has done, a kind of summing up of the journey and reflection on...
by Kathy Hurt | Aug 9, 2023 | Reflections |
I thought by now my life would be different, or rather that I would be different. I took to heart that typical response of adults to children’s questions once complicated matters have moved into focus, how “you’ll understand when you get older.” I counted on reaching...
by Kathy Hurt | Jul 31, 2023 | Reflections |
No one ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and one is not the same person. – Heraclitus I am returning to my blog and website after a long time away. Having been immersed in interim ministry that required the exhausting process of...
by Kathy Hurt | Apr 30, 2022 | Reflections |
One phrase I hear often in conversations about church gatherings is the phrase “showing up”: people talk of the need to show up, the importance of showing up, just how a person shows up. With the pandemic, we learned a whole new way of showing up that had not...
