
MUSIC AT A FUNERAL
Remember the 1983 movie The Big Chill?
Randall "Randy" Tremba was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. He took a bachelor of arts in philosophy at Wheaton College, Illinois (1969), a master’s of divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena,California (1973), and a doctor of ministry at Princeton Seminary (1992). He was installed as minister of the Shepherdstown (WV) Presbyterian Church in July 1976. Forty-one years later he retired. In between, he married Paula, became a parent (Jonah, Nathanael, Amanda) and a grandfather, founded the Rumsey Radio Hour (1990), and co-founded the Shepherdstown Good News Paper with Ed Zahniser (May 1979).
Remember the 1983 movie The Big Chill?
I saw Charles III crowned in Westminster Abbey. I expected Monty Python to save the day. No such luck.
I looked in and around my world for something to occupy my mind, something remarkable. I found nothing, except this.
The Grim Reaper was not by my bedside. Something scarier was.
This past Wednesday I was on my back in the Berkeley Medical Center Cath Lab, plugged in for the shock of my life.
I loved church. Church felt like home. And then I discovered I was gay.
Persephone, beloved daughter of Zeus. has arisen. Her mother, Demeter, goddess of grain, lifts her curse from the soil. Earth blossoms.
Is Jesus coming back? The answer I once gave is not the answer I give now.
I drive my 14-year-old twin granddaughters to school most mornings. They sit in the back seat. I say something. And wait for a reply. Nothing.
Florence was worrying herself to death. Worry ate at her like termites.
Thanks to Old Scratch I’ll be posting a reflection on something I find remarkable in and around my world most every Sunday morning.
Read more about the devil’s role in my life in “This Little Light of Mine” under Let Love Arise in the menu bar.
Remember the 1983 movie The Big Chill?
I saw Charles III crowned in Westminster Abbey. I expected Monty Python to save the day. No such luck.
I looked in and around my world for something to occupy my mind, something remarkable. I found nothing, except this.
The Grim Reaper was not by my bedside. Something scarier was.
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