The Hubbell Pew

The Hubbell Pew The Hubbell Pew is an accumulation of daily meditations and stories to enable the reader to meditate, discuss, and think about questions of life and faith

Today's thought:
03/20/2026

Today's thought:

Have you ever caught yourself saying, “I wish I could do that”? As a child watching Wide World of Sports, I’d sit transfixed, thinking to myself: I wish I could ski jump, dive off a cliff, or run a four-minute mile like Jim Ryun. I never did any of those things, nor many of the… Read More

Today's Thought:
09/23/2025

Today's Thought:

Therefore, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and evil, but the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 1 Corinthians 5:8. This morning I spent quite a bit of time writing about St. Paul’s words and their applicability to today when I struck the wrong key a...

Today's Thought:
08/11/2025

Today's Thought:

We must support the weak. — Acts 20:35b Today’s challenge requires us to see beyond financial hardship or physical prowess. Weakness can manifest in a hundred different ways: a failing body, a broken spirit, or a wavering resolve. This also isn’t a command directed only at the strong or the we...

Today's Reflection:
07/26/2025

Today's Reflection:

Places can become part of us, can imprint themselves on the soul like people we have loved. Because every place is part of a larger landscape, a cell in the body of the world, to fall in love with any one place — to contact its beckoning beauty, its vulnerability, its variousness — is to… Read...

Today's Thought:
07/15/2025

Today's Thought:

I say to you, stand up, take your mat, and go to your home. — Mark 2:11. Today’s verse, might initially strike us as harsh or unfeeling, a stark contrast to the compassionate image of Jesus. However, as with many important statements, its true meaning and power emerge only when we understand its...

Today's Thought:
07/06/2025

Today's Thought:

You could be standing next to someone who is trying their best not to fall apart. So whatever you do today, do it with kindness in your heart. — Anon. When we think of someone on the verge of “falling apart,” our minds often go to highly visible crises—families separated, or people in dire p...

Today's thought:
06/28/2025

Today's thought:

“Life is a whole, and the journey has been well worth making,” Winston Churchill observed. Churchill’s wisdom was much needed this morning after I had just experienced a night of troubling dreams. After such a night, my mind is prone to wander into the realm of “what ifs.” It’s curious, ...

Today's meditation:
06/25/2025

Today's meditation:

Then they began to ask one another which one of them it could be who would do this. — Luke 22:23. Today’s Gospel recounts the moment after Jesus reveals that one of his disciples will betray him. The question, “who would do this,” asked in that upper room so long ago, resonates today. When s...

Today's Thought:
06/22/2025

Today's Thought:

There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male or female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. — Galatians 3:28. I wonder if this verse isn’t the most forgotten verse in the New Testament. St. Paul’s message in Galatians 3:28 is a statement… Read M...

Today's Reflection:
06/09/2025

Today's Reflection:

For they understood nothing about all these things; in fact, what he said was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said. — Luke 18:34. It’s striking to look back at Luke 18:34 and see how the disciples “understood nothing.” From our perspective, Jesus’s predictions about his s...

Today's meditation:
06/05/2025

Today's meditation:

Winston Churchill, a man who knew a thing or two about both glory and shadows. He also knew a thing or two about a good cigar and a stiff drink, which can make both light and shadows seem a bit more… manageable. His observation, “The glory of light cannot exist without the shadows,” is truth,....

Today's Thought:
05/28/2025

Today's Thought:

The familiar words from Luke 12:25, “And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?” are frequently invoked as a prompt to simply “calm down.” Yet, as many of us know firsthand, worry is rarely a faucet that can be turned off at will. Once it takes root,… Read More

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