Submitted by KCH’s Rev. Dr. Diana Leaf, Chaplain The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. – Psalm 23.1 (NIV) A mother is trying to teach her daughter to be suspicious of commercials. When an ad breaks in on the YouTube video they’re watching, she’ll talk back to the screen: “We already have a car!” or […]
Chaplain’s Message: Stay Human
Submitted by Rev. Dr. Diana C. Leaf, Chaplain Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect. – Romans 12:2 (NRSV) The first thing Jon Batiste did when he got to […]
Chaplain’s Message: Such Great Lengths
by Rev. Dr. Diana C. Leaf, KCH Chaplain Then Moses said, “I must turn aside and look at this great sight and see why the bush is not burned up.”– Exodus 3:1-3 (NRSV, adapted) Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain […]
Chaplain’s Message: Night Work
by Rev. Dr. Diana C. Leaf, KCH Chaplain “We must work the works of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work.” – John 9.4 (NRSV) Jesus apparently spoke these words, but surely he, best friend to nocturnal fishermen, knew they were wrong as soon as […]
Chaplain’s Message: Be Now Our Vision
by KCH Rev. Dr. Diana C. Leaf, Chaplain And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes and his sight was restored. – Acts 9:18 (NRSV) If only it were that easy. Or that final. If only it was a “once-in-a-lifetime” experience. A one-time need for the scales to fall from our eyes. The book […]
Chaplain’s Message: Your People
“Your People” by KCH Rev. Dr. Diana C. Leaf, Chaplain The Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely… they have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it!” But Moses implored the […]