by Andrea Cosnowsky | Mar 16, 2020 | Power, Prayer, Spiritual Lens
How do we find power? That is a great question. Like many of you who have written in, I too feel a sense of powerless in these unprecedented times. It’s scary to feel powerless. Ultimately, lack of power is our problem, so we have to find a power greater than we,...
by Andrea Cosnowsky | Mar 12, 2020 | Spiritual Lens, Struggle
Photo by Sasin Tipchai Brene Brown http://Brenebrown.com says that ‘we are wired for struggle.’ The human condition is to struggle against something. Ask anyone at a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous and they’ll have very different stories to tell. One will say they are...
by Andrea Cosnowsky | Mar 9, 2020 | Faith, Fear, Spiritual Lens
It was a hard week. I really wanted to hug my congregants. Having returned from Sabbatical, it was natural that people wanted to give me a hug. Hugging, and appropriate touch, is one of my love languages. [https://www.5lovelanguages.com] I did a funeral last week and...
by Andrea Cosnowsky | Mar 5, 2020 | Faith, Spiritual Lens
This past month, I had the opportunity to go on a 30 day sabbatical. Sabbatical comes from the root word, Sabbath or Shabbat, meaning ‘to rest’. This concept comes from the verse in Genesis about how God rested after 6 days of creating the universe. And after 15...
by Andrea Cosnowsky | Mar 2, 2020 | Hope, Spiritual Lens
Danger = Threat plus Opportunity There is a symbol in Chinese calligraphy that simultaneously characterizes both danger and opportunity. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Although a situation can seem scary, there is great opportunity for good as well. It’s difficult...
by Andrea Cosnowsky | Feb 27, 2020 | Grief, Spiritual Lens
I congratulated my Doctor friend on his upcoming retirement. He was pushing 70 and I thought he’d be excited to have some time to enjoy life. Instead, he said, “This is the worst thing that could happen to me.” He was miserable about it. And he looked it. The idea of...
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