Category: inspiration

• Growing a Community… Garden!

  I’m frugal. It’s both my nature and the result of working for churches and nonprofits my entire adult life. It can be hard for me to spend money on things deemed necessary.  So when it was time to turn our mud puddle of a yard into something more inviting I struggled.  “I need green growing…

  April 28, 2015

• The Woman Beneath the Vestments: My unconventional story of salvation

  I have always been quietly confident; blessed to be born into a family and in a time and place where women were encouraged to be whatever they wanted to be in the world. So when I was ordained a Catholic priest in 2007 there wasn’t a lot of shock in it, just another step for…

  March 8, 2015

• Winter ecstasy

  “And don’t think the garden has lost its ecstasy in winter.  It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.” Rumi

  February 11, 2015