08 Sunday Dec 2019
Posted in Advent, AdventWord, Christianity, Christmas, Uncategorized
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December 2–Advent Word: Visit
December 3–Advent Word: Time
December 4–Advent Word: Humble
December 5–Advent Word: Raise
December 6–Advent Word: House
December 7–Advent Word: Unity
December 8–Advent Word: Worthy
17 Sunday Nov 2019
Posted in Bishop, Christianity, Diocese of Georgia, Episcopal, Uncategorized
It has been a busy week as we got ready for and attended the 198th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia. As Canon to the Ordinary (Assistant to the Bishop), my husband, Frank, and I had to leave early with the rest of the staff to help with preparing our convention site at Georgia Southern University (where my husband and I met as students 37 years ago).
On Thursday, I attended a Creation Care Committee workshop on tree planting at the Botanic Garden at Georgia Southern University after visiting with my mother and taking her to lunch at a local restaurant. We planted four trees, beginning the Committee’s initiative to plant 222 trees in the Diocese by 2022 (see Revelation 22:2).
That evening, we attended Evening Prayer at Trinity Episcopal Church where I was Baptized, Confirmed, and one of the Diocese’s first female acolytes. It is also the church that sent my husband to seminary and where he was ordained to the Priesthood in August of 2000.
We decided to take a trip down memory lane that night and went to Dingus Magee’s, the restaurant where we had a lot of our early dates. Then we returned to the hotel to rest before the morning’s big event: the election of the 11th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia in which Frank was one of the five nominees.
Following the opening Eucharist, we were led to an empty room to await the counting of the ballots. Imagine our surprise when the entire Standing Committee filed in and informed us that Frank had been elected on the first ballot! It is still sinking in. Frank will be consecrated by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry here in Savannah in May of 2020.
29 Sunday Sep 2019
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Cholla at Spur Cross Ranch Recreation Area
Taking a break this week while in Arizona filming videos for an online class to go with a book we’ve just finished, and to attend our daughter’s White Coat Ceremony at Midwestern’s School of Veterinary Medicine.
Here’s a few photos taken while filming.
Sun rising over the ridge at Spur Cross Ranch.
Clouds over Hole in the Rock at Papago Park.
14 Sunday Jul 2019
Posted in Christianity, Poetry, religion, Uncategorized, Wild Goose Festival
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
My intention this week was to run the above poem along with a photo as I was going to be away at the Wild Goose Festival. Imagine my surprise and delight when I found the above right next to the Episcopal tent!
The Wild Goose Festival is an art, music, and story-driven transformational experience grounded in faith-inspired social justice, according to Wikipedia.
The Wikipedia article also states that the festival: “encourages co-creation of music, story, theater, and spectacle, and engagement in a wide variety of robust, respectful conversations with participants and with thought leaders and artists from other communities. Wild Goose is welcoming and hospitable to people of all faiths – or no faith – who join in seeking the common good. It fully affirms and celebrates people of every age, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, sexual identity, education, bodily condition, religious affiliation, and economic background, particularly those who are most often marginalized.
“Wild Goose is rooted in Progressive Christianity, moving beyond belief and centered in justice and compassion, in solidarity with the marginalized and the oppressed. The festival is popular among many involved with the emerging church movement.”
Our Diocese is one of the sponsors of the Episcopal tent. The event hosts more than 5,000 people annually.
While we were there so my husband could preach and celebrate at the Noon Friday Eucharist, the tent stays busy all day long . . .
23 Sunday Dec 2018
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The challenge continues . . .
December 17–Sing My favorite Advent hymn from which I found the titles for the three books in my fantasy series, The Hallowed Treasures Saga.
December 18–Ancestor The grave of an ancestor in rural Georgia.
December 19–Wash Baptism is “the heavenly washing”.
December 20–Ablaze. This site doesn’t support video, but on this day I posted a short video of a fire blazing in the hearth.
December 21–Sign
December 22–Expect. Expectation of the harvest: an olive tree about to bloom.
16 Sunday Dec 2018
Posted in Advent, AdventWord, Episcopal, Macro photography, Photography, Uncategorized
And the challenge continues:
December 10–Cry
December 11–Grow
December 12–Rough. Macro shot of rose quartz.
December 13–Smooth Macro shot of polished quartz.
December 14–Prune
December 15–Prepare 1928 Book of Common Prayer
December 16–Rejoice St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine in St. Augustine, Florida.
