Spirit Soundings
Spirit Soundings is the Blog of our Executive Presbyter, Rev. Ruth Santana-Grace
Beginning Anew…. Making it Plain
“O Lord, how long shall I cry for help and you will not listen?” (Habakkuk 1:2a) “…Then the Lord answered me and said: Write the vision; make it...
Pentecost Promise and Perseverance by Rev. Ruth Faith Santana-Grace
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent...
The Gift of Love by Rev. Ruth Faith Santana-Grace
“Let all that you do be done in love.” (I Corinthians 16:14) As we lean into what has become a Hallmark holiday greatly focusing on romantic love,...
In the Stillness and Silence by Rev. Ruth Faith Santana-Grace
But yet the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire there came a still small voice. And in that still voice onward came the Lord. Holy, holy,...
Into a New Season – The Dance of Faith and Works
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Surely that faith cannot save, can it? If a...
My Siblings on the Journey: A Letter from Rev. Ruth Faith Santana-Grace
June 17, 2024 My Siblings on the Journey, I can still remember the grace and energy of support you all exhibited March of 2022 when the Presbytery...
“Can These Bones Live?” by Rev. Ruth Faith Santana-Grace
The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of...
An Extraordinary Pairing, by Rev. Ruth Faith Santana-Grace for the First Sunday of Lent
And a voice came from the heavens, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.” (Mark 1:11) This year’s Lenten season was launched...
Prophetic Challenge – the Light of Epiphany by Rev. Ruth Faith Santana-Grace
I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth; do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert....
