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Mothering Love
Beloved friends, From a very early age she knew she was different, and it never seemed to bother her. About this time of year from 1st grade on, our daughter would come home telling a version of the same story- over the years becoming more and more eloquent and...
Mother’s Day
Next week I’ll be back on my community engagement soap box, but this week I’d like to get vulnerable and share some memories. When I was about four or five, my family was living in Dayton Ohio, and during the fall my dad had a rare weekend off and we decided to go...
Pride is Nigh
My friends, it is the beginning of May which means Toledo Pride is only a few months away. With such a big, fun, and important event I’d like to start our planning on it sooner rather than later. I have spoken to many people who have been involved in Pride past, and...
What we Need is Here
Beloved Friends- What a glorious week it has been. But before I say anymore, take a moment and soak in these words by poet and environmental activist Wendell Berry: Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes.Abandon, as in love or sleep,Holds them to their...
Baking Competition May 28th!
There are many fun things about working at Trinity. I enjoy greatly the tasks that sit on the “fun” list each week. Music selection, choir rehearsal, and creating posters are some of my favorite things to do. And this week, I got to make a poster for the upcoming...
More Like Love
Good day, my fine friends. Have you ever had an experience where a song captivates you? For days? I find myself lucky to have those experiences. It isn’t always, but when it does happen, I am always thankful and usually a little surprised. When I find these songs,...
Proud Dad Day
There are a lot of things I could write about this week, but I’m not going to because something personally special is happening. This Sunday 4/30, we will be baptizing our son Evan at Trinity. It is a day, truthfully, I thought would never come as we’ve had many ups...
On Children
Beloved Friends, Inside the pages of a fable-like poetry collection called, The Prophet, written in 1923 by Kahil Gibran, are words of his poem On Children. I have memorized the words, sung them for years and written them on my heart, thanks to the musical setting...
Lonely People
My Friends, I write to you today to share a song that touched me this week in an impactful way. So much so, I changed the music plan so I can sing it this week at our in-person service. Imen Star released her single “Lonely People” in March of 2022. I was lucky to...
Resurrection Joy
Beloved Friends, Shalom! Peace to you my dear ones. As we move further into this season of Eastertide- these 50 days after the Resurrection, our community will gather both through Trinity@Home (on-line) and with Trinity@316 (in-person) this Sunday and hear a familiar...
The Strangers in our Midst
While looking for art for this weeks blogpost, I found this and instantly remembered how many houses I’ve seen this hanging in growing up, and never realized it was the Road to Emmaus. I guess you could say I didn’t recognize it was Jesus. This week’s Gospel reading...
Ukulele Choir is back!
Good day, my friends! I write you today to invite you to join Trinity’s Ukulele Choir. You may be asking, Ukulele choir? Is that even a thing? Do I need to know how to play already? I thought choirs were just for singing. These are all great questions. Let me give you...
Letting Radical Love In
Hello my fellow friends, members, and family here at Trinity Episcopal. Before I jump in, a bit of housekeeping: This next week we will also be hosting our monthly TSN Vendor Lunch, so if you’re interested in having a great time with cool people and even better...
The promise of an eternal return to spring
Beloved Friends, What a splendid celebration of the Resurrection this past Sunday! Thank you again and again to everyone in our exquisitely beautiful, faithful and talented community who worked so hard to offer a liturgy and experience that welcomed nearly 200 through...
Holy Week & Easter
The music team at Trinity might be having too much fun. Though it might not be possible to have too much fun in church music, I think we’re getting there. Grace and I have had a great time crafting the music for Holy Week and Easter, and though that might be a weird...
Khriah
One of my favorite moments in the Gospel of Matthew (27:51) is read every Holy Week, it is right after Jesus dies, “At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split.” This was never really a passage I cared...
Broken Hearts are Mended, Wounded Souls are Healed
Beloved friends, Many in my generation have inherited things from our parents; some physical, some emotional, the aggregate of which represents various aspects of who our parents were and perhaps still are in our lives. Over the years on one wall or another, either...
It Takes a Village
Hello, my friends! Wow, what a month this has been! Through our concert series starting March 1st to the last Wednesday concert March 29th, we experienced five different types of music; all unique and life giving in different ways. My hope is that you were able to...