Another transition. Yesterday Milton Jones announced that he is leaving the Northwest Church, having been called to preach elsewhere. After 29 years serving the church here, it was obviously a day of some pain. As always, there were many questions asked, not all of which can be answered, and the church is now awash in …
The Sunday Morning Walk
So I climbed out of bed, showered, got dressed, and headed for Javasti's, where I got my cup of coffee and a scone I wasn't supposed to get (just a little push and pull with an ongoing discipline--lost this battle for a number of reasons), and sat at the outdoor table relishing an amazingly beautiful …
Foggy
7:15 a.m. Sun rising unseen somewhere behind the fog. Fog is appealing, makes me want to go walk in it. Feel the close wetness on my face as I wander down to the coffeeshop. But not this morning. This morning I'm prepping to go to a rehearsal, terribly distracted, caught--as it were--in a fog. The …
Sabbath Practice II
Sabbath is hard. Life demands so much: deadlines loom, new work assignments threaten to create chaos, crisis must be managed, and relationships take time. To stop, to cease, to come to a sudden halt, opening the hands to God in trust that "all will be well" is a surprisingly daunting task. Yesterday, I read, I …
Receiving Poetry, Receiving the Christ
Jazz is blaring in the background, the coffee cup has been drained, and I'm sitting in the window at Javasti's sitting across from a man whose name I know, but we rarely speak. Who knows why? There's a baby that screeches from time to time, and the quiet hum of the place has been replaced …
JEFF BERRYMAN 