The power of smell ...

Posted by The Rev. Jennifer Andrews-Weckerly on

Last week I was taking a walk for a bit of exercise on my day off. I was trucking along when all of a sudden a fragrance hit me – the smell of honeysuckle. I stuttered to a stop just so I could inhale the scent a little longer. Honeysuckle is one of those scents that takes me back to a...

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Tags: honeysuckle, memory, incense

A little help ...

Posted by The Rev. Jennifer Andrews-Weckerly on

As a parent of two young children, I have had to readjust how I do about pretty much everything. Grocery shopping is one of the trickiest. My current method is to put my oldest in the shopping cart seat (luckily she is still small enough for that) and to put my youngest on my chest in a baby...

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Tags: shopping cart, control, god, help, humility, neighbor, parent, relationship, vulnerable, shopping, cart

Both / And

Posted by The Rev. Jennifer Andrews-Weckerly on

I was fine until my older daughter’s teacher saw me without the baby, realized I had dropped her off at nursery school, and then asked if I was okay. I really was fine. But as soon as I tried to tell her how fine I was, my eyes moistened. I kept my response short for fear that my eyes...

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Tags: parenting, vocation, priest, maternity, sad, joy, church, challenge