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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Tea time …

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This Lent, I am reading the book The Way of Tea and Justice by Becca Stevens with a book group. To be honest, I am not sure it is a book I would have picked up on my own. I am not super passionate about tea; I am more of a coffee drinker myself. Tea always seems to be so labor intensive. When I...

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Tags: gift, god, holy spirit, lent, listen, tea, time

The art of listening …

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When life gets too loud it can leave us deaf to God's call

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Tags: busy, eli, god, hear, holy spirit, listening, samuel, spiritual direction

Taking a Seat

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I was a bit hesitant about having a random, meaningful, spiritual conversation with a total stranger. Taking the first step was the hardest part.

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Tags: conversation, holy spirit, stranger, god, encounter, meditation