Tag: Ruth Hetland

• Ash Wednesday

  

  There were a few chores I really enjoyed while growing up.  Feeding the chickens and ducks was always fun, and hanging up the laundry on the clothesline was also something I never minded doing – but the one chore that my brother and I actually fought over getting to do was to carry the trash…

  Ruth E. Hetland

  February 10, 2016

  Forgiveness, Lent, Sermons, Uncategorized

  Ash Wednesday, ashes, forgiveness, Frederick Buechner, repentance, Ruth Hetland

• Ashes

  

  We all have our stories of ashes, don’t we? Mine, I think of a home that once existed – now just a memory. Yours might be the ash and ruin you found your life in after poor choices made. They could be the ashes of dreams you had for a relationship or the ashes of…

  Ruth E. Hetland

  February 9, 2016

  Death, Lent, Sermons

  Ash Wednesday, ashes, death, Folden, Imposition of Ashes, Jan Richardson, Ruth Hetland

• The Bell Tolled 91 Times

  

  The church bell tolled ninety-one times this afternoon as we brought her out to the cemetery.  The wind swept like a brush through the grass and picked up bits of dust, carrying it far off over the cedars and live oaks.  “Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” I said and sprinkled the…

  Ruth E. Hetland

  January 30, 2014

  Death

  ashes, bell, death, dust, flag, funeral, grief, Ruth Hetland, tears