Tag: church

• “So Long, and Thanks for All the Cheese!” – parting words from my appendix

  

  At first I blamed the chimi crawl, three Dominican hamburger-sandwiches I’d eaten on Saturday night for the sake of a magazine article. They tasted very good, but shortly after eating them I experienced acute and severe stomach pain, and three days later it still hadn’t completely subsided. On Tuesday afternoon, my still present, low-grade stomach…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  August 23, 2021

  food, health, Life

  a night at the ER, appendectomy, appendix, church, community, emergency, Family, flowers, friends, health, hospital, life, ohana, stomach pain, surgery

• “Let me not eat of their delicacies…”

  

  One of the practices I find great joy in doing is writing reflections. (You may recall a few months ago I shared an Advent reflection about what it means to go home for Christmas.) This process of writing reflections is helpful for me because it allows me to see scripture in a new way, by…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  March 23, 2018

  faith, food, holidays, writing

  church, delicacies, eating, faith, fasting, food, inspiration, Lent, meaning, Psalm 141, reflections