Today is the last day before Lent begins tomorrow with Ash Wednesday. As we embark on our inward journeys with Jesus toward Jerusalem, I invite you to share your intentions and experiences with our community. I look forward to this time to focus our minds, hearts, and actions. Lee Ann Kelly gets us started with
Read MoreRenée asked me to write about something that is on my mind. Not surprisingly, since Donna’s passing into God’s next realm, and as more and more family and friends pass, wondering about God’s future is often on my mind. So, I decided to share with you a poem that I wrote over 25 years ago
Read MoreI love that the lectionary brings us back to Genesis, to creation. This morning I listened to Pray as You Go twice through, reveling in the reading of abundance bursting forth and God’s rest on the seventh day. I walked the retention-pond-route, from lake to lake, gazing at the sky, watching the birds. The prophetic stream
Read MoreThank you for participating in the ministry of New Covenant Fellowship through your gifts of time, energy, finances, and prayer in 2022. ‘Tis the season for donation letters, a time to reflect on what was accomplished and be grateful for another year. Each of you is part of us. Personally, I appreciate your book/music/podcast recommendations, ideas,
Read MoreVitality. Are you feeling it today? Gray skies, bad news on the airwaves, daily frustrations, and planks in our own eyes. Listening to a conversation with Rabbi Nahum Ward-Lev leads me back to YHWH, the Living Presence, perhaps pronounced as the sound of our breath. I found myself wanting to rewind and listen again. They
Read MoreI appreciate Ron Simkins’ reflection below about Jesus being CREATIVELY CONSISTENT and CONSISTENTLY CREATIVE, as we consider this theme for 2023. May it inspire you as well. –Renée I find myself thinking quite a bit about Renée’s recent teaching theme: Creatively Consistent and Consistently Creative. Either Jesus was very dull and unable to notice apparent
Read MoreGod always loves us with a greater love than we have for ourselves.* This assertion surprised me. Do I believe it? Do you? Describing my experience in the desert mountains as a kind of mini-sabbatical, I was grateful to explore my renewed sense of energy and purpose. My nun asked if perhaps this was Jesus’ Christmas
Read MoreThe wind in the Chisos Mountains basin blows through my brain, clearing out my thoughts, leaving awe and empty space. I couldn’t imagine this place. We’d been off-grid for a few days in the silence of the desert. More camping, more hiking, seemed perhaps beyond us. Saturated with beauty, I worried we were too tired
Read MoreMy orchids are re-blooming. Some sending up a tiny new shoot, while others have seven gorgeous blossoms. I sip my hot tea, cradling the mug in my hands, looking out on a cold and snowy day. What are my senses telling me about the world? We announce to you what existed from the beginning, what
Read MoreThe quiet of having adult children home, nestled in their rooms, feels different than an empty-nested house. My dining room table is ringed with silent figurines of carolers, mouths open mid-song, and crowded with post-it labeled gifts. I am indulging my dislike of shopping by searching my shelves for items to wrap for family members
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