by Kristin Camp | Apr 20, 2022 | Marta Blog
EASTER IN STYLE On Easter Sunday morning some pastors dance in the aisles. The “Flying Pastor” makes a grand entrance on a zip line into the sanctuary as the star of the show. Yet nothing we do competes With the feat of Jesus on his resurrection day, transforming from...
by Kristin Camp | Apr 13, 2022 | Marta Blog
HOLY WEEK WITH JESUS While wandering on this lovely Spring day, it feels like its perfection could last forever and a day. I reflect upon shouting Hosannas and waving palm branches until our arms grow tired. Already we wandered into the emotional highs and lows of...
by Kristin Camp | Apr 6, 2022 | Marta Blog
SPRINGING FORTH Winter amnesia had set in. My memory of the colorful autumn season had faded months ago. Exactly when I thought I could not stand seeing winter’s monochromatic landscape one more day Bright yellows, purples, and greens make the first move to scooch us...
by Kristin Camp | Mar 30, 2022 | Marta Blog
LIFE ON THE GALAPAGOS Out of the bus window shouts are heard at the spotting! A gigantic solitary tortoise on the side of the lonesome highway extends her telescoping neck out of the ancient looking shell and grazes on grasses and cactus in the desert heat. Only she...
by Kristin Camp | Mar 29, 2022 | Newsletter
With Easter and all of our Holy Week activities quickly approaching, you won’t want to miss the details! Click to view, download and share our latest issue of The Inspiration: Saint Paul Inspiration – April 2022
by Kristin Camp | Mar 23, 2022 | Marta Blog
A NEW DAY Away from television broadcasts computer distractions and decisions required of where to go or what to do or eat My brain goes into a mode born of leisure not often seen of late. Enumerated lists of anxiety give way to taking joy in the frothy cranberry...
by Kristin Camp | Mar 16, 2022 | Marta Blog
ATTAINING STRENGTH TOGETHER Sometimes our hearts hurt. for those in harm’s way. The skies darken and we wonder. what tomorrow will bring. Finally, the clouds begin to clear. Through them sunrays boldly shine forth in all directions. God’s intends that we believe....
by Kristin Camp | Mar 9, 2022 | Marta Blog
THE TRUNK For years the old trunk sat at the top Of the stairs of my folks’ home housing treasures rarely beheld. Back in the day, this sturdy trunk made a voyage across the sandhills in a horse-drawn carriage before being transferred onto a train pulled by a steam...
by Kristin Camp | Mar 2, 2022 | Marta Blog
THE WORLD NEEDS MORE OF THESE Little boys using glove-covered hands to build a cool snow fort directly on the edge of the long sled run on a sixty-degree Sunday in late February. One involved father with his son (who knows not that he’s so young) demonstrating great...
by Kristin Camp | Feb 26, 2022 | Newsletter
Lent begins March 2nd but that’s only the beginning of a month of activity at Saint Paul Benson. Click here to view, download and share the March edition of our newsletter. Saint Paul Benson Inspiration ~ March 2022