I'm really great at doing things retroactively. Like, picking New Years goals (still waiting), or what I want to eat at a restaurant (normally happens 2.5 seconds before/after the waitress comes). So it should come as no shock to you that, in February, I've finally decided a word for 2017. I wasn't going to do…
Planting (2)
It snowed a few days ago, but I don't feel like the world is quite so cold and dead because I'm looking out the window over a planter full of tiny micro greens, happily craning their heads to the weak sun. It's hard, in fact, to see anything but life and growth in my windows…
a note on recent words of unwelcoming
How do we make meaning out of what seems to be intolerable? Incoherent? Inherently evil? The last few days, I’ve opened my laptop, terrified of finding out what new legislative event has happened while I’ve been away. And every time I think that there couldn’t be anything worse, there it is, the next day. Seeing…
Arise! Shine! (Epiphany Sermon)
Why are you here? Why are you here sitting in this pew, in this church, on a Friday night in January? You’ve come to church when you didn’t “have to”—it’s not Christmas anymore. What are you looking for? It is easy to think of Epiphany a season of “life as usual” between Christmastide and Lent.…
Farmgirl Writes 