January 2024 – Sharing God's Love and Grace

What Is This?!

Meditation on Mark 1:21–28 First Presbyterian Church of Smithtown Pastor Karen Crawford January 28, 2024 It was pouring rain, dark, and foggy when we drove to South Shore University Hospital in Bayshore on Thursday morning. We left the house at 5:36 a.m. It had been for me a night of mostly staring into the darkness,Continue reading “What Is This?!”

Fishers of People!

Meditation on Mark 1:14–20 First Presbyterian Church of Smithtown Pastor Karen Crawford Jan. 21, 2024 I’m back! It’s good to be home with my flock. How have you been? Traveling to Austin was, once again, an adventure. It was sleeting on the morning I left from MacArthur Airport. I couldn’t see out my window onContinue reading “Fishers of People!”

My Peace I Leave with You

Meditation on John 14:1-7, 15-18, 25-27 In Memory of Zena “Sue” Nunziata November 9, 1934 – December 27, 2023 Pastor Karen Crawford First Presbyterian Church of Smithtown, NY I didn’t remember her name was “Zena” on my first visit to Sue at St. James Rehab, more than a year ago. Wearing a clerical collar, holdingContinue reading “My Peace I Leave with You”