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09/07/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

I don’t recall quite where I came across these words … they are the good fortune of aimless scrolling. I have a shirt pocket archive for such writings. Therein, these words of The Rt. Rev. Morris K. Thompson, Jr., Bishop of Louisiana: “Let us resolve to respect the dignity of every human beginning today, and when the sun comes up tomorrow let us once again resolve to respect the dignity of every human being and again the next day until God tells us we are free from our sins. For this is the work God has called us to practice.” Amen!

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

08/31/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

I’ve had some wild-eyed notions over the years … impractical, unworkable ideas. As a kid, I tried selling ice cream cones from my bike on a summer day, pedaling through neighborhoods as the ice cream dripped onto the pavement. My ideas are some better now. I question … experiment … I proceed slowly and ask the advice of others. Still, there’s a hidden risk: If I tell someone what I’m going to do, they might run my idea into the ground with a dozen reasons why it won’t work … and I might not get out of bed the next morning. Still … onward!

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

08/24/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

I’d been dispatched on an errand to the medical complex. Doctors’ offices, X-rays places, laboratories, a lot of people milling about looking for their doctor or the exit. I had in hand what I was sent to get. I looked around, got my bearings, and headed for the exit. An old man, maybe my age, appeared to be looking for something, so I asked, “You OK?” He said, “Trying to find the men’s.” I walked with him. Slow going, but we found it. He said thanks. He meant it. I went on my way, feeling some better about life.

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

08/17/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

My father was a literature major (Dartmouth, 1923). I inherited his love of the classics and made my way through a fair number. Some were terrific, others not so much. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick has remained a mainstay for me, a work I return to from time to time. Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim … not a favorite … save for one sentence, near the book’s end, an instruction to Jim from his father, a churchman, that Jim should, “Trust Providence as the established order of the universe.” Those words come to me, from time to time, as if from my own father.

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

08/10/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

I have a photograph of my father and grandfather seated next to a ticker tape machine. They were stockbrokers. Someone has died and, as was the custom, both wore black armbands. My father smiles at the camera. He is young, not yet, and he is confident. It will be alright. My grandfather, then 56, sits slumped. His eyes are watchful, as if to say, ‘the troubles are only beginning.’ The photograph, dated on the back, was taken eighty-eight years ago, months before the onset of the Great Depression. I have heard the stories and taken them to heart.

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

Sometimes we need to start our week in a peaceful, meditative setting. Our Taize service encompasses a contemplative, ec...
08/08/2026

Sometimes we need to start our week in a peaceful, meditative setting. Our Taize service encompasses a contemplative, ecumenical form of common prayer originating from the Taizé Community in France. It centers on meditative singing, a period of silence, Scripture readings, and candlelight to foster an atmosphere of inner peace and deep spiritual reflection.

We cordially invite you to join us this Sunday, August 9th to New Life Episcopal Church for our monthly Taize service at 7pm. Our address is 13118 Church Ave NW, Uniontown, OH 44685
We are blessed to Adam Keeler, classical guitarist for our musical accompaniment.

08/03/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

It was cold out and I had the heater turned way up on that old Plymouth Fury police cruiser. Round and round the village I went, a quiet night until I chanced to stop by the laundromat. A man sat on a milk crate, his bare legs sticking out from a poncho he had pulled tight around him. I asked him, “Watcha doin'?” He tilted his head. “Only clothes I got is in there.” A few threadbare bits of cloth spun around in the dryer. I dropped a dime in the payphone and asked the chief what I ought to do with this desperado. Chief told me to hold the fort, he’d be over directly. The chief came with an armful of clothes and what looked like his old hunting jacket and gave them to the man. Chief said to me, “I sincerely hope this crimewave don’t last past spring.”

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

07/27/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

They were my friends of many years and not a little surprised when told that I was to be ordained deacon. They came to my ordination but didn’t know quite what to make of it… all that highfalutin ceremonial stuff was not their thing. Still, I was happy they were there and sorry I didn’t have time to spend with them just then. They left when the service ended. I’d meant to call but time went by. Then came a package from them … a gift for this deacon … a Benedictine Prayer Book. I keep it close. It’s a good world.

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

07/20/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

Implicit in a promise to write letters to a prisoner is the likelihood that you will be drawn into the life of another. In the main, I understand boundaries … but I also understand the responsibilities that go with caring for someone who is, most certainly, one of the very least among God’s children. I write letters … I send him a few bucks to buy something … I visit him … write to his kids … and I talk to his lawyer. Maybe I don’t understand boundaries after all … but I’ve been well repaid for whatever I have done for Mike … and for others.

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

07/13/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

There was a time when I believed that a better world would come about through systemic effort. If we just fix the system, the lowly will be lifted, justice and mercy will prevail. That may be true, though I never saw it happen. I tired myself out and sat on the sideline. Then Sr. Kathleen, an Ursuline nun, introduced me to a young man in the sixth grade. He could barely read. His arithmetic, history and geography were shaky. I knew that stuff, or a fair amount of it. Together we worked through it … we both discovered a new world.

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

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