Lawrencefield Parish Church

Lawrencefield Parish Church Lawrencefield Church is a community of Beloved Belonging. We understand that belonging is an essential part of life.

We are committed to community outreach, adult & child spiritual formation, and following in the Way of Jesus.

06/02/2026

Spiritual Companion and Guide, Nancy Woodworth-Hill, offers Just Like Me as a spiritual practice. It is an invitation to to put aside ideas about differences and to build a sense of the common humanity we share.

06/01/2026

Monday Gratitude:List three things for which you are grateful today.

05/31/2026

The Rev Dr. Nancy Woodworth-Hill, rector of Lawrencefield Parish Church in Wheeling, WV, leads Sunday Prayer for Trinity Sunday.

05/30/2026

Saturday Scripture:
2 Corinthians 13:11-13
Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.

You may use your own pattern of being with scripture. One that I like is a Celtic approach. First, put yourself into the scene. It is appropriate to imagine what is not sketched in the scriptures. What do you notice (check all your senses)? Then, ponder the symbols, images, and themes. How do these relate to your life?

Have you ever wished to simplify your life? To sort through what you need, and what you don’t, to reset relationships, to be able to honestly greet people in peace? This is not easy work. Yet we are reminded that this work has value: to experience God’s love, and the communion with the Holy Spirit. If you were to start with one thing, what would that be? Think small and doable as this is a process that takes time, thought, and care.

05/29/2026

Friday Poetry:
The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do not know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what it is you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

What words or images invite you to sit with them for a while?

Oliver ponders the nature of prayer, mortality, and life’s purpose. What does life mean to you? How do you best honor this? Olive suggests living authentically and intentionally. What are your answers?

05/28/2026

Thursday Reflection Question:
Memorial Day was Monday, a day for mourning US military personnel who have died while serving in the armed forces. Is there someone in your family or among your acquaintances whom you especially remember on this day? How do you remember them?

05/27/2026

The Rev. Dr. Nancy Woodworth-Hill offers prayer at the close of day.

05/26/2026

Some describe when their emotions are triggered as "he/she pushed my buttons." The gap between the stimulus and the point at which we (using another metaphor) flip our lids has been measured as one quarter of one second. That brief time is our choice point. Viktor Frankl wrote that in the space is our power to choose our response. And in our response lies our growth and freedom." Nancy offers the practice of Pressing the Pause Button by using the BACK model she describes in this video.

05/25/2026

Monday Gratitude: List three things for which you are grateful today

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44 Kirkside Drive (off Table Rock Lane)
Wheeling, WV
26003

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+13042772353

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