by Eilidh Lowery | Dec 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
This year feels like it has been a roller coaster. I was so hopeful back when 2021 started. Then we had the insurrection on January 6th. I was so grateful when I got vaccinated. Then began the anti-vac movement. I was so excited that we were going to begin...
by Eilidh Lowery | Dec 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
It is the week of Christmas and snow is on the way! Something that would have filled my 8 year old heart with joy fills me 44 year old head with worry. I’m thinking about our houseless neighbors, our friends who are traveling, and our own home as we once again face...
by Eilidh Lowery | Dec 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m beginning to see a new link between love and anger. So often love is seen as all the soft emotions, unless we’re talking about tough love, a special kind of love that get’s it’s own adjective. Love is tough and tender. It’s angry and hopeful. Love is...
by Eilidh Lowery | Dec 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Crisis after crisis seems to be erupting around us. Gas in the building means we have to cancel worship. Local high school in lockdown with reports of an armed student. Spending hours hunting down a booster shot to protect against Omicron. I find myself addicted to...
by Eilidh Lowery | Dec 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Peace seems so hard sometimes. Especially when we make it about a perfect, serene state, free from conflict. Peace is actually the transcendent, that which we encounter not when we avoid conflict or sorrow or difficulty, but rather what we find when we embrace...
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