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Remembering the When. Celebrating the Now.

August 29, 2023 By Cara Meredith Leave a Comment

On my wedding anniversary, I found myself browsing through old photo albums on Facebook.

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Filed Under: Prayer Tagged With: Prayer, relationships

When Hope is a Discipline, Everything Changes

June 13, 2023 By Cara Meredith Leave a Comment

We started to hear rumblings of a teachers’ strike just a couple of days before it happened.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: hope, Martin Luther King, parenting, teachers

Shouldering Our Way through Good Friday

April 7, 2023 By Cara Meredith Leave a Comment

Shouldering is a way of moving upwards, out of the darkness and into the light. Not unlike human shoulders that shrug and scrunch, sometimes toward the ears and sometimes back down toward the belly, when a vegetable is good and ready it will scrunch and shoulder toward the sky.

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: gardening, Good Friday, gun violence, Holy Week, Jesus

Advent finally showed up

December 18, 2022 By Cara Meredith Leave a Comment

Advent came a little later than expected this year.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, Palestine, waiting

Clinging to Hope Amid Failed Expectations

August 26, 2022 By Cara Meredith Leave a Comment

I held high hopes for tomatoes this summer.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: failure, gardening, hope

Down in the gullies, you make springs to rise

May 17, 2022 By Cara Meredith Leave a Comment

Have you ever had one of those palm-to-forehead moments?

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Filed Under: Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Annunciation, confession, grace, Prayer

My Piece to Own

March 3, 2022 By Cara Meredith 2 Comments

How are we to respond when we’ve been wronged?

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: gifts, giving, justice

Remembering Our Collective Oppression

June 12, 2021 By Cara Meredith Leave a Comment

I saw it again the other day: she took a wide berth, or perhaps I should say, she gave me a wide berth.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: coronavirus, humanity, relationships

Hope is still there

February 26, 2021 By Cara Meredith Leave a Comment

This year, Ash Wednesday looked like parking in a 12-minute spot on the corner of Bay and Montecito and walking up to the front step of our church building.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, coronavirus, COVID-19, hope, Lent

The Dark Ancient Truth of O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

December 22, 2020 By Cara Meredith 11 Comments

Usually, by the time December rolls around, I am ready for the Advent season to come around as well.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, coronavirus, hymns

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