14 Feb 2025 0 Comment

February 14

Roy's Ramblings Happy Valentines Day! A day for lovers to show their feelings toward another with: chocolate, flowers, and jewelry … or it is a day that Hallmark, Florists, and Big Box Stores make money. Oh, don’t get me wrong...
7 Feb 2025 0 Comment

February 7

Roy's Ramblings This coming Sunday is Scout Sunday - a service where we celebrate all things scouting. We will have young people serving as greeters, ushers, and liturgist. We may have some special music or readings. We will start...
31 Jan 2025 0 Comment

January 31

Roy's Ramblings Stress, Fear, Anger, Worry - all of these have very negative effects on a body. And, when the body is compromised - and one goes to a museum filled with snotty/coughing/sick children - one ends up with the...
24 Jan 2025 0 Comment

January 24

Roy's Ramblings “Being a United Methodist is as Easy as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5” Sometimes I think we make it too hard to understand.  We throw around words like “connectional” and “itinerancy” and a hodgepodge of alphabetical...
17 Jan 2025 0 Comment

January 17

Roy's Ramblings The United Methodist church is known for many things. It is known for its willingness to help others - UMCOR, Hospitals, Food Pantries, Soup Kitchens, AA, Scouting, Habitat, etc. It is known for its openness to...
10 Jan 2025 0 Comment

January 10

Roy's Ramblings There is a scene in the movie White Christmas where the four main characters (Bing, Danny, Rosemary, and Vera-Ellen) are on a train to New England and they sing: Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow. Then they get to Vermont and...
20 Dec 2024 0 Comment

December 20

Roy's Ramblings Christmas is coming are you ready? Is it just me or does it seem like time is speeding up? I mean wasn’t December 1st just a couple of days ago? This month has flown by and yet there is still so much to get done and...
13 Dec 2024 0 Comment

December 13

Roy's Ramblings This Sunday is the third Sunday in Advent - The Sunday Of JOY!!! We light the rose colored candle this week - you say it is pink?? Nope - actually it is rose colored (which in my book looks pink as well). But, there is...
6 Dec 2024 0 Comment

December 6

Roy's Ramblings This Sunday is the second Sunday in Advent and is the Sunday of Peace. Webster defines peace as: freedom from disturbance; tranquility. So with that definition in mind … when was the last time you...
29 Nov 2024 0 Comment

November 29

Roy's Ramblings So by the time you are reading this - we have had our fill of turkey and all the fixin’s … we have heard the same stories told by cousin Fred each year - we have probably seen a little football action - we’ve...