I think sometimes we rush through life and forget to look at the beauty around us. It’s as if beauty knows we are looking for it - it will be there when we seek it.
Read MoreApril is national poetry month. We love poetry around here at the Interyear House! Here is a poem that I wrote after an hour spent in the chapel at St. John’s Episcopal Church.
Read MoreHoly Saturday gives us an opportunity to engage with the darkness and confusion of our current reality, too. We all have questions that go unanswered, grief that demands to be felt.
Read MoreOften in our rush, we miss the beauty and significance of God’s slow work. God is intentionally forming us, crafting us into who we need to be.
Read MoreSitting down for a meal with loved ones and friends, knowing you can come as you are and be known and loved - it changes things in us that other things can’t.
Read MoreSometimes finding joy in difficult situations might be challenging or feel impossible. We need our perspective to shift, to invite God into our midst so that we might be able to see the beauty of the situation. For many of us, that doesn’t come naturally and we need others to help guide and teach us how to view things in this way.
Read MoreWe long for the peace that Christ brings. We long for a world where things are set right, in harmony in the world that God created through Christ.
Read More“There are safe spaces to wait for hope -places for coziness and warmth, while you sit and rest in community, hope can sneak into your heart. A place where the weight of the darkness can be met by the hope of light.”
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