On being good …

Posted by The Rev. Jennifer Andrews-Weckerly on

Driving home from school this week, my daughter and I talked about some challenges she is having with poor behavior in the classroom. We talked about some strategies to help her work on it. I encouraged her to just keep trying. Exasperated, she said to me, “I am trying. It’s just so...

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EMBRACING JOY ...

Posted by The Rev. Jennifer Andrews-Weckerly on

Our Vestry and Parish just completed a Mutual Ministry Review – a time to reflect on the health of our congregation and to strategize about how to move toward greater health and wholeness. There was a lot of positive feedback in the survey indicating the ways in which we have grown and...

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Tags: christ, church, constructive criticism, encouragement, faithful, health, holy spirit, improvement, joy, review, servant

Keeping Christ in Christmas …

Posted by The Rev. Jennifer Andrews-Weckerly on

I live in an area of our country that has a lot of “Keep Christ in Christmas,” signs. I think people post these signs for all sorts of reasons: for fear that Christmas has become too secular and lost its focus on the birth of the Christ Child; out of resistance to Christmas becoming...

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Tags: christ, christmas, church, encourage, guilt, jesus, uplifting, witness, maraboli, message, feed, clothe, forgive, welcome, care