Not sure where to begin. All I know is that the past few months have seriously taken a toll on my mind, body and soul. I keep hearing the words of the old church ladies, “Be grateful. Someone has it worse than you.” Quite honestly, I don’t think that makes me feel any better or makes me any more or less grateful.
There are seasons that show up in our lives unexpectedly. Seasons that we can’t control. When those moments come, and I do mean moments, but the moments feel like a lifetime, all we can do is settle in, feel the heaviness, meditate, pray, cry, talk through it, and settle in a little bit more. These seasons make for bumpy rides due to uneven roads with many small pebbles and often thick weeds that make it even tougher to move. But move anyhow.
This kind of season makes for slow walks. This kind of season demands gentle care on the spirit. This kind of season requires rest and compassion for the weary soul.
So I settle in, breathing through the rough patch and waiting, knowing that this season will break. I hold on.
Hello! Welcome to my personal blog. I write to express love, acceptance with inviting readers to see God in their spaces and hopefully see the image of God in themselves. I am an ordained minister in the Methodist tradition. I was ordained in 2009 and have served a various churches as an assistant and youth pastor. I am mother to a terrific young woman who I admire for her boldness with sticking with her passion of film making. I am a wife of a guy who loves and fight for social and economic justice all God's people.
I started this blog when I was 58 years old. My mother had just died, I retired from a job, not career, of over 37 years and moved to a new strange location. I didn't know what to do or how to be next. This soft sweet voice in my head says, why not just be yourself, authentic and unapologetic. I've been scared most of my life to live freely because of what others thought and even how the church told me I was suppose to be. But I don't ever want to be what others expect me to be, I want to be what God gifted inside of me. So with that, I open myself up to all of you. This is who I am.
Thank you for dropping in!
Rev. Jacqueline Pinkney
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