Monthly Archives: April 2024

Meditation on Genesis 2:4b-10, 15 First Presbyterian Church of Smithtown, NY Pastor Karen Crawford April 21, 2024 Creation Care Sunday We hosted a funeral at the church yesterday. The service was not for a member but for someone with Smithtown family connections. Everything went smoothly. Special thanks to our volunteers who helped behind the scenes!Continue reading ““Keeper” of the Garden”

In Memory of Gillette Dauphinot Piper First Presbyterian Church of Smithtown, NY Pastor Karen Crawford April 20, 2024 Gillette did not have an ordinary childhood. But how could she? She was born in 1941, a time that lives on in the American memory, the year Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor, and our world would beContinue reading “Meditation on Romans 8”

Meditation on Luke 24:36b-48 First Presbyterian Church of Smithtown, NY Pastor Karen Crawford April 14, 2024 I have a scar on my left wrist that is almost as old as I am. There’s a story behind every scar, isn’t there? I was thinking the other day how there’s only one person left in the worldContinue reading ““Have You Anything to Eat?””

Meditation on John 20:19–31 First Presbyterian Church of Smithtown, NY Pastor Karen Crawford Second Sunday of Easter April 7, 2024 Where were you on Friday when Long Island experienced an earthquake? Did you know it was an earthquake, right away? The earthquake we felt this past Friday, April 5, was a magnitude 4.8 at itsContinue reading “What Do You Need to Believe?”