Category: Rector’s blog

I’ve talked a lot about how St. Luke’s is working hard to be intentional about who we will become moving out of this pandemic.  What do we hold on to?  What do we set down?  What new practices will we pick up? This summer, St. Luke’s will be offering this same sort of thoughtful reflection … Continue reading Set Your Intentions: Short Family Retreat Days

Yes! Magazine is a wonderful collection of feel-good news.  This week, an article from them passed through my feed, We Have to Get Ready for the Good Things to Come.  I immediately thought, “Exactly! This is what our Discerning Vision team is helping St. Luke’s to do:  to prepare ourselves to be ready for the … Continue reading Getting Ready for the Good Things to Come

Clergy have been talking about how we hold people who are in very different places. Some are ready to get back and frustrated that things are so slow. Others are grieving very real losses that they have had to hold alone for far too long. Enfleshed, a Facebook page I follow, shared that they had … Continue reading A Poem to Share

A new ice cream store had its grand opening downtown last night.  My family decided we’d like to try it out so we piled into our car, with a fully vaccinated friend and drove downtown after dinner.  We got close and saw a line running out the door and half a block down.  People were … Continue reading Imagine Yourself Here

After twenty-some years, the brick walkway in front of our house had become a danger for visitors.  Trees had grown, water channels had eroded, and bricks had heaved and sunk.  What was once a beautiful, welcoming path had become a hazard.  So this week, Shawn pulled up all the bricks to expose the foundation. And … Continue reading Rebuilding from the Ground Up

This phase of the global pandemic reminds me of the end of the flood story in Genesis.  The narrative we’re most familiar with is the “Forty days and forty nights.”  But, like so many of the stories in our Bible, there is actually more than one version of the story about Noah and the Flood.  … Continue reading The End of the Flood

As I was preparing myself to get St. Luke’s nimbly prepared for the state’s new loosened mandates about COVID safety coming out on June 1st, I was caught off-guard by this week’s announcements that masks would no longer be required by the state when we are outdoors in small gatherings.   The diocese has provided guidance: … Continue reading Taking it Slow

This week, our Vestry started the work of looking at who we have been as a church, who we really are now, and who God wants us to become.  We began by having each of us remember what was going on in our own lives, in the world and at St. Luke’s when we started … Continue reading Then and Now

Ephesians 3:14b talks about growing into “maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.”  This bible verse has come related to multiple situations this week.  I’ve been thinking about maturity a lot, and our call as Christians to mature more and more. One spectrum of maturity is moving from “rights” to “responsibilities.”  When … Continue reading Growing into “Maturity, to the Measure of the Full Stature of Christ”

This week in our Lenten Program “Meeting God in Books” we discussed Abraham Joshuah Heschel’s work “The Sabbath.”  We spoke about how even God needed Sabbath.  And we noticed something more.  In the story of creation, we all know that God rested on the 7th day.  But one of our group mentioned that, in daily … Continue reading Easter Season Spiritual Practice