Katrina Ross Zezza

  Sermon August 2, 2026 “Wrestling With God” by Rev. Katrina Ross Zezza Scripture Reading:  Genesis 32:22-31 We have a sign in our kitchen that I had to make awhile back, and we still have it up. It has a hand drawn picture of a masked figure kicking fiercely and a big red X indicating that this is a prohibited behavior. It says, “No Ninja Fighting in the Kitchen,” because at one point this was a rule that regularly needed repeating. A lot of kids go through phases like that, where they want to be fierce. We had nerf guns, foam swords, toy weapons of any kind really and we were into ninjas, superheroes and even villains. Puppies also go through phases like this, I found out... It seems like play fighting is an important part of their development too. So the “no ninja fighting rule” applied to our dog Yoshi as well. Yoshi is a labradoodle, but I used to call her a croc-a-doodle because when she was a puppy, she was part labrador and part poodle- and also part crocodile. I was w...