Resurrection
Posted: April 18, 2020 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Easter, GCPC, Resurrection
I watched Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church’s live-streamed worship service this past Easter Sunday (April 12). I missed the Call to Worship where various church members proclaimed Christ’s resurrection in their own way because I was too busy pushing buttons to try and get the worship stream. By the time I figured it out, Jeff was playing […]
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Footwashing
Posted: April 10, 2020 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: cognitive overload;, Isaiah 43:19-21, Lent
Practically the whole country is in quarantine due to the COVID-19 virus so things seem a bit strange. I’m trying to take some deep breaths and enjoy this time without life’s normal hustle and bustle. Jonathan Ross redid my web site but I’ve been putting off posting on my blog because I dislike engaging […]
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Ash Wednesday
Posted: February 27, 2020 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Ash Wednesday, Lent
Lent is my favorite time of the church year. I went to Haywood Street Methodist yesterday and received the imposition of the ashes. Haywood Street is a church with people who have homes and some who do not. Local restaurants take turns providing a free meal with three serving times offered prior to worship on […]
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Church Adventures
Posted: October 19, 2019 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: notions, resting brain, spatial orientation
I don’t see myself as a bumbling, muddle-headed person but sometimes I feel like one. Last Sunday at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, many of my brain injury challenges showed up. Twenty-three years after my TBI I still think of my challenges as separate from me rather than part of who I am. I wonder when […]
Read more...Communion
Posted: September 26, 2019 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Communion
I led communion this past Sunday at the church I attend in the late afternoon – Circle of Mercy. I really like public speaking but I still always get nervous. (Fun fact: Some studies say public speaking is a person’s greatest fear.) Maybe if I had been leading worship these past twenty odd years; this […]
Read more...The Gift of Vulnerability
Posted: August 30, 2019 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Vulnerability
I have a difficult time “tooting my own horn,” as they say so I am grateful Joyce Hollyday who helped me write my book, Forgetting the Former Things: Brain Injury’s Invitation to Vulnerability and Faith, wrote a post on her blog about it on June 6 2019. (joycehollyday.com). I am printing it below. “The jangle […]
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