by Eilidh Lowery | Dec 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
It is the end of the year and we are looking towards the beginning of a new one. At the parish we are working on drafting a 5 year strategic plan. I have a great scheme for us to read the bible in a year starting right after Pentecost. And we are continuing to come...
by Eilidh Lowery | Dec 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
This week we lit our last advent candle, celebrating love. Love comes in so many forms, all of them an extension or reflection of God’s love for us! My love of cheese is a delight in the creativity and wonder of humanity to make something so good. It’s a...
by Eilidh Lowery | Dec 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
We often think of deserts as stark landscapes with little color, yet with just a little bit of water miraculous things happen. Suddenly animals an insects pick up activity and the plants produce flowers and seeds. Life quickens with water. This advent we remember that...
by Eilidh Lowery | Dec 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
When I was a little girl I learned about Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese woman who died of radiation poisoning 10 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on her home of Hiroshima. She folded cranes as part of a wish for peace. I always found it so powerful that she...
by Eilidh Lowery | Nov 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Advent is the 4 weeks before Christmas and is a time of waiting. Each week traditionally is associated with a theme and the way I learned those was to begin with hope. I love that advent starts here, in a place of dreaming of something better. Hope for me is an...
by Eilidh Lowery | Nov 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Every year in the fall we as a parish make promises about the year ahead. We reflect upon the vow we make when we join a faith community to support it with our prayers, our presence, our gifts, our service, and our witness. While the pledge idea originated with a...
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