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I Almost Missed the Wonderment and the Magnificent!

October 11, 2022 By Susan Caldwell Leave a Comment

Hurrying around the parish campus, trying to get ready for our patron feast, Saint Michael’s Day, I would have easily missed something wonderful!

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Godly Play, imagination, nature, patron saints, St. Michael, wonder

How Reconnecting with Nature Helped Me Reconnect with God

July 30, 2021 By Oscar Collins Leave a Comment

Little did I know that reconnecting with nature and my inner being would help me reconnect with God, too.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: creation, nature, summer, travel

Nature Study and the Awe of God

June 21, 2020 By Emily Watkins Leave a Comment

Some of my earliest memories are exploring the forty-five acre farm I grew up on. I remember my cousin showing me how to find spit bugs and thinking it was a miracle that hundreds of these little bugs were there wrapped under leaves and yet I had never seen them before.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting Tagged With: creation, God, nature, parenting

Native Gardening: Here and Now

September 25, 2019 By Anne Warner 2 Comments

I’m a carpenter’s daughter. My father built the suburban Chicago house of my childhood with his own hands in the evenings after working his for-pay job. Suburban sprawl put food on my table and paid half my college tuition where in environmental science classes I was taught about its horrors.

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Filed Under: Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Creation care, For the Beauty of the Earth, nature

Red

June 14, 2019 By Anne Warner 1 Comment

It’s been less than a year since our family’s returned to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, so there are still surprises in the liturgical calendar. “Please wear red on Pentecost,” invited Father Randall. I owned nothing red except for a waffle-knit funnel-neck shirt that obviously screamed fall even though the weather was basically expected to be just that.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: hike, Holy Spirit, nature, Pentecost

Empty Nest

May 26, 2019 By Anne Warner 2 Comments

My mom texted a picture to all seven of us kids at the end of August after Nathan, my youngest brother and twenty years my junior, left for his freshman year of college. “In the first week of empty nesting we found an empty nest!” she wrote.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: creation, mindfulness, nature, parenting

Engaging Wonderment on the Lesser Feast Day of John Muir

April 22, 2019 By Beth Bojarski Leave a Comment

Recently on a car ride, my four-year-old asked my ecologically-minded fifth grader and me the question, ‘Why do trees grow?’

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: childhood, cloud of witnesses, creation, environment, nature, wonder

Ten Ways to Pray With Kids

November 7, 2017 By Alissa Ellett 2 Comments

We give our children an invaluable and timeless gift when we practice prayer with them.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: art, children, discipleship, Illustrated Children's Ministry, nature, Prayer, songs, young children

Hiking our way: rebuilding our church’s youth group

September 20, 2017 By Miriam McKenney 2 Comments

“How did I get here?” I thought. “More importantly, how do I get out?”

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Prayer Tagged With: creation, God, hike, hiking, nature, Prayer, teenagers, teens, youth group

Slow down and celebrate God’s creation

May 3, 2017 By Miriam McKenney 1 Comment

By building intentionality into our days, my girls and I make time to enjoy God’s creation.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting Tagged With: cats, creation, God, intentionality, nature, teens, woods

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