Happy Birthday!
Posted: October 7, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
I turned 53 this past Sunday. How did that happen? The last time I checked I was 33. I always become rather introspective around my birthday. Especially now, since 2/3rds of my life is over. Folks are living longer and I might live past 73 but reaching my 50’s has been sobering just the same. […]
Read more...“One of Those Days”
Posted: September 21, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Choir, overstimulation, resting brain
Singing in the choir at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church this morning was “one of those days.” We warmed up in the sanctuary which meant going upstairs to the choir room first and getting my bulletin and robe. I already had my music since I take my folder home every week. I use a large print […]
Read more...Don’t Believe Everything
Posted: September 16, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
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Yesterday I took Sparky for his morning walk. One of the houses previously had a big tree on the property. I don’t know what it was but it may have been hundreds of years old. A couple of years ago, the home’s owners cut the seemingly healthy tree down so they could have a garden. […]
Read more...Waiting in the Darkness
Posted: September 12, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Anne LaMott, Depression, moon
I don’t want to accept life as it is which is why I’m often stressed and depressed. I’m angry because I can’t be a minister at a church. I’m angry because I haven’t been able to improve my preaching. I’m angry because I can no longer play my violin or my viola. I’m angry because […]
Read more...New Vision
Posted: September 5, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: awareness, Depression, grief, journey
In his sermon at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church on Aug. 24, 2014, Mark Ramsey spoke about the Emmaus journey and how two weary, grieving disciples had bet their lives on the wrong savior. “After three years of imagination-stretched living, they can’t imagine how their time will be filled other than some wish-dream cobbled together by […]
Read more...Summer Institute II
Posted: July 8, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
I’ve been listening to the tapes I made of the 2014 Summer Institute on Theology and Disability back in June. It is almost impossible for me to take notes and listen to a lecture or presentation at the same time due to my brain’s inability to divide its attention which is why I tape them. […]
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