by Kathy Hurt | Oct 1, 2024 | Reflections |
After my former husband had accompanied me to Texas to meet my family of origin, he observed, “You’re a fine argument for the theory that the stork brings babies, because you must have been simply dropped into that family. You have nothing in common with them.” ...
by Kathy Hurt | Sep 26, 2024 | Reflections |
When this blessing knocks at your door You will not want to let it in. Quite the contrary: You will pretend not to hear it. If it keeps knocking, You will tell it to get lost. Blessings that come without warning Seldom turn out to be real blessings But more often...
by Kathy Hurt | Sep 24, 2024 | Reflections |
More and more, I find that in order to navigate my days with a measure of patience, I have to screen out quite a lot: avoid too much hearing and reading the latest news, stay focused and ignore noise around me when I try to write, turn away from yard signs that too...
by Kathy Hurt | Oct 28, 2023 | Reflections |
I grew up in a church tradition that told us each Sunday how hopelessly depraved and sinful we were, with no possibility for being anything other than sinful unless we went through a specific kind of salvation experience taught by that tradition. By the time I...
by Kathy Hurt | Oct 21, 2023 | Reflections |
A line of peace might appear if we restructured the sentence our lives are making, revoked its reaffirmation of profit and power, questioned our needs, allowed long pauses . . . from “Making Peace” by Denise Levertov We wake these days to the distressing news of a new...
by Kathy Hurt | Oct 11, 2023 | Reflections |
I once heard a minister deliver a sermon entitled “Humble Pie a la Mode.” A clever title—and a perfect instance of how we tend to view humility, especially in the context of liberal religion: humility is not a virtue, but rather a problem, a symptom of lacking a...
