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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

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

Good Soil

October 26, 2021 By Laura Shaver 1 Comment

You will encounter challenging rocks that stand in your way, and you’ll have days of drought, but focus on staying in good soil, so that you will continue to bloom toward Jesus.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: gardening, Matthew, middle school, parable

Easter in the Compost Bin

May 10, 2021 By Micha Boyett Leave a Comment

This Eastertide I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to live in the relentless goodness of Easter Sunday, not only on the day of Easter, but in all the fifty days that follow.

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Filed Under: Easter Tagged With: Easter, gardening, parenting

The Verdant Greening of Joy

September 17, 2020 By Erin Jean Warde 1 Comment

Today we celebrate the commemoration of Saint Hildegard of Bingen, a woman offering so many gifts to the church that they are hard to list.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: gardening, healing, Hildegard of Bingen, joy, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, pain

Uncovering Rocks

June 24, 2020 By Lauren Kuratko 2 Comments

Lately, I’ve gotten into gardening. We are lucky enough to live in a home on a church property, with places around the property where we can garden.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: COVID-19, gardening, racism, transformation

Getting Ready for the Year-End Sprint

November 9, 2017 By Rachel Jones Leave a Comment

This end-of-year sprint is familiar territory for all of us. And still, every year it rolls around and surprises us.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Faith, fall, Family, garden, gardening, grace, gratitude, Holidays, St. Matthew, winter

Make Your Own Advent Wreath

November 21, 2016 By Heather Sleightholm 2 Comments

There’s more than one way to make your family’s Advent wreath.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, Advent wreath, Family, gardening, nature

Our family’s food choices matter because of our faith.

October 14, 2016 By Nadia Stefko Leave a Comment

Not long ago, I was a farmer. These days, it seems like a victory just to get dinner on the table.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Bible, food, gardening, Holy Eucharist, land

Embracing the Green Growing Time

June 15, 2016 By Emily Watkins 2 Comments

As we see the green Sundays of Ordinary Time stretching out before us, I am so very ready to focus on slow growth.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: discipleship, gardening, ordinary time

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