Welcome to My Blog
Here is a masonry blog layout with no sidebar
Midweek Noonday Prayer
We will take a break from midweek prayer through the holiday season and resume sometime in January.
Sacredness at Home
Hello, friends! What is sacred space? And how is sacred space created? We began our Wednesday night Advent workshop last week on Creating Sacred Space at Home reflecting on these questions. At the core...
Trusting God’s Timing
Beloved friends- Many years ago, in the LGBTQI community, the word “outing” became common nomenclature as the word describing what happens when someone (usually without permission) decided to reveal the sexual orientation of another person. It happened to...
Halfway
Beloved friends- Advent Greetings! One week into this special season of waiting and watching and wondering and Sunday will mark our halfway mark as we travel towards the Feast of the Nativity culminating in the story of Jesus’ birth. A couple years ago I received a...
Ebb and Flow
Hello, my dear friends! As we begin the season of Advent, I find myself reflecting on spiritual practices that have been particularly sustaining for me, especially over the past few years. And how when I lean into some of them now, I am finding that I experience them...
Thanksgiving Day Message
Beloved Friends-Happy Thanksgiving!As we sit at our various tables in perhaps still smaller gatherings than we would prefer for the second year in a row, may we still remember to say a prayer of thanksgiving for who and how we are learning to live together as a...
Imaginal Cells
Beloved Friends, Today, as we near the end of our 2021 Pledge Drive, I am thinking about “imaginal cells” as a powerful metaphor describing who we are called to be as a loving, liberating, life-giving community of faith. Imaginal cells are the ones responsible for...
Let’s Get Radical
Hello, my friends! For the past few weeks, we’ve together reflected on the importance of prayer language as we explored our relationship with money and how in new seasons of our lives, God invites us to make new...
New Seasons, New Commitments
Hello, my friends. Last week I reflected with you on my “ah-ha” moment and some of the questions that have helped me to better understand my relationship to money. This week I want to reflect on my understanding of stewardship...
Discerning Financial Commitments
Hello, my friends! We are officially in stewardship season – the dedicated time where we prayerfully discern how we each might contribute to the on-going work of our faith community, particularly how we might...
All-Parish COVID Response & Worship Update
Friday, October 22, 2021 Beloved friends,...
Why Our Words Matter
Hello, my friends! It is good to be back with you for another season of reflecting and growing together. You might remember this past summer we reflected on the revolutionary act of praying the daily office. We...
What is greatness?
Beloved Friends- What is greatness? How do we decide if someone is great? Do we define greatness in terms of power, privilege, and prestige? What do we teach our children about what it means to be great? Do we measure the greatness of someone by the company they keep,...
The Gift of Living in Community
Beloved friends, As I reflect on this past week, I am struck with the simple truth that life is truly best lived in community. We are more than who we can ever be on our own when we dare to share what matters most. Over the past week members of our extended community...
The Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi
Beloved Friends- Next Monday, October 4th, is the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi. Francis astounded and inspired the Church by taking the gospel literally—not in a narrow fundamentalist sense, but by actually following all that Jesus said and did, joyfully,...
Perspective
Beloved Friends, Perspective…that is the word and thought coming to me as I sit down to write to you today. Both literally and symbolically, this word captures reality; literally, as I sit on a plane in between Detroit Metro and LaGuardia airports heading to NYC for a...
Music Ministry Update: TRINITY CHOIR IN-PERSON PAUSE
Hello, Trinity! Choir is one of our many beloved communities at Trinity Episcopal Church. Filled with members who volunteer their time, hearts and energy, we work together to create music celebratory of the divine love we share in our lives. Last week, there was...
Coming Home
Beloved Friends- It is wonderful to be back among you after a time of sabbath rest. Some of you know this ended up being a different kind of “time away” for me- it included coming back to work for a couple of weeks as we continued staffing transitions and then...