Posts tagged with ‘Jesus’

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Stained-Glass Dancing

May 31, 2019 by Cindy Maybeck

I preached at Hadwen Park Congregational Church on the first Sunday in April at Rev. Sarah Sund-Lussier’s ordination. She requested her favorite scripture, Jesus’ parable of the lost sheep. The shepherd loses 1 out of 100, but searches until he finds the single lost lamb and rejoices when it is back in his arms, just […]

Jesus is my gravity

January 7, 2014 by Cindy Maybeck

At first the film Gravity seemed too fantastic. I mean when would I be dressed like an astronaut working on a space shuttle like Sandra Bullock’s character Ryan Stone? Then I recognized the spin. You know the one. Weightless without gravity she turns and spins with no direction, no stopping and no grounding. She is frightened, […]

A different kind of power

November 25, 2013 by Cindy Maybeck

Twelve years a slave provide a riveting cinematic view of slavery in the 1840s and 1850s. The film opens with a shot of a violin bow dancing on strings. An accomplished musician and free man, Solomon Northrup plays the fiddle at a dance in his hometown of Saratoga Springs, NY. After Northrup is kidnapped and […]