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Hi friends,
If you followed my previous blog, A Little Good News from Pastor Barb, you will find this new blog quite different. I was going to call this blog, From Pulpit to Pen. But Barb's Blog is simpler.
As I am not serving a church presently, I have poured my overwhelming amount of spare time and energy into writing about the church. WAIT! DON'T LEAVE! IT'S NOT LIKE THAT!
The church can be quite funny. In the midst of the comfort and boredom of the church year calendar, the tragedies, struggles, and loss; the church is also full of creativity, personality and personalities, accidents, goofiness, forgiveness, and love. Each of these things are wrapped up in holy moments and outrageous grace.
This blog gives me the freedom to write about writing. Being an author has opened up a new realm of creativity and thoughtfulness. Decades of pastoring different churches has given me endless experiences. My books are fictional. However, some people and their stories have wended their way (with their permission) into this fun series.
Howard Baker is one of those precious saints. He died last week at the age of 90. My heart wasn't the only one that was broken. Here is a small part of the eulogy I gave at his funeral on February 3, 2017:
...Thank you for saying “yes” when I asked if I could use your name and personality in my books. After you read the first book I asked you if I liked it. You said, “It was okay.” I could tell you weren’t thrilled. “Oh, didn’t you like it?” I asked (slightly heartbroken). Then you said, “Well, you married me off to that old bitch, Mrs. Abernathy! Why?”
I laughed so hard when you said that. And I responded, “You were the only man who could truly love her and make her a better woman.”
And Howard, that’s just who you were and are in our hearts. Everyone who has ever known you has become a better person. You were a man with a huge heart, a bit of a temper, a naughty sense of humor, a world traveler, and voracious reader, a creative builder, an honorable husband and father and grandfather, a man who loved and is loved so completely.
You wanted your funeral to be ten minutes long. Sorry. If you were here, I would take your hand, look in your tear-filled eyes, and say, “Now Howard, let’s be reasonable, how can all the love and sadness of this day be contained in ten minutes. You are just being ridiculous.”
He was a precious man, and will live on in printed word married to Verna. Whether he likes it or not.
This new blog will share bits of my writing. I'm happy to answer questions-I would LOVE to hear from you! Once in awhile, I may just leave a thought or wonderment. I hope you join me as pulpit and pen are melded together in stories you can hold in your hands and hearts!
Barb
Pen-L.comhttp://www.barbara-edema.com/BarbaraE...
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Hi friends,
If you followed my previous blog, A Little Good News from Pastor Barb, you will find this new blog quite different. I was going to call this blog, From Pulpit to Pen. But Barb's Blog is simpler.
As I am not serving a church presently, I have poured my overwhelming amount of spare time and energy into writing about the church. WAIT! DON'T LEAVE! IT'S NOT LIKE THAT!
The church can be quite funny. In the midst of the comfort and boredom of the church year calendar, the tragedies, struggles, and loss; the church is also full of creativity, personality and personalities, accidents, goofiness, forgiveness, and love. Each of these things are wrapped up in holy moments and outrageous grace.
This blog gives me the freedom to write about writing. Being an author has opened up a new realm of creativity and thoughtfulness. Decades of pastoring different churches has given me endless experiences. My books are fictional. However, some people and their stories have wended their way (with their permission) into this fun series.
Howard Baker is one of those precious saints. He died last week at the age of 90. My heart wasn't the only one that was broken. Here is a small part of the eulogy I gave at his funeral on February 3, 2017:
...Thank you for saying “yes” when I asked if I could use your name and personality in my books. After you read the first book I asked you if I liked it. You said, “It was okay.” I could tell you weren’t thrilled. “Oh, didn’t you like it?” I asked (slightly heartbroken). Then you said, “Well, you married me off to that old bitch, Mrs. Abernathy! Why?”
I laughed so hard when you said that. And I responded, “You were the only man who could truly love her and make her a better woman.”
And Howard, that’s just who you were and are in our hearts. Everyone who has ever known you has become a better person. You were a man with a huge heart, a bit of a temper, a naughty sense of humor, a world traveler, and voracious reader, a creative builder, an honorable husband and father and grandfather, a man who loved and is loved so completely.
You wanted your funeral to be ten minutes long. Sorry. If you were here, I would take your hand, look in your tear-filled eyes, and say, “Now Howard, let’s be reasonable, how can all the love and sadness of this day be contained in ten minutes. You are just being ridiculous.”
He was a precious man, and will live on in printed word married to Verna. Whether he likes it or not.
This new blog will share bits of my writing. I'm happy to answer questions-I would LOVE to hear from you! Once in awhile, I may just leave a thought or wonderment. I hope you join me as pulpit and pen are melded together in stories you can hold in your hands and hearts!
Barb
Pen-L.comhttp://www.barbara-edema.com/BarbaraE...
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