Sermons by Pastor Sara Funkhouser

I always wanted to have large, beautiful gardens… and now that I have them, I remember just how much time and energy goes into weeding all that landscaping. When we just had the few little planters on the deck, it wasn’t nearly as time-consuming of an issue, especially when I forgot the plants existed! Any of you who have ever spent time in a garden or with a lawn know…

When Emily and I were living in our first place here in Seattle, she came home from the Rainbow Hop on Phinney Ridge one year with a sunflower seed planted in a tiny little cup. She put it out on our deck, not really expecting much, until, eventually, we had a 7-foot sunflower that had been replanted several times and needed to be tied to the railing to keep it from…

When I was a pediatric hospital chaplain, I spent many hours each day witnessing the exhaustion of families who had children in the hospital. You could see it in the way their bodies drooped under the mental, emotional, and physical distress of watching their child struggle, while also running the costs through their heads. Because we were a level 1 trauma center, and the…