After I had taken decorations and lights off my Christmas tree, I set the tree on the deck. Within a minute, the prairie wind that was gusting on the 12th day of Christmas blew a traveling milkweed seed into the lower branches of the tree. It was a lovely reminder not only of the Monarch Waystation […]

Thank you Roger and Becky for the gift of another intriguing and artistic banner for the season. Our Advent/Christmas celebration reaches its culmination this Sunday with Epiphany, the coming of the Wise Ones to Bethlehem. These provoking Advent words and Christmas star are suspended beneath the word “Belong.”  Throughout the current liturgical year, we will […]

Christmas night brought a fair amount of low swirling fog that was frozen the next morning on needles, branches, and stalks. On Church Road up close to Baseline, I came upon milkweed fluff and seeds frozen in place, close to the ground. After winter’s rest, milkweed across the county will welcome and nurture 2019’s Monarchs. […]

On this fourth Sunday in Advent, the Sunday of Love, you are invited to bring candles to cover our altar. Tapers in candle holders, pillar candles, tea lights and votive candles, even a chandelier will be appropriate. This is a picture of last year’s altar of light. The light is symbolic of the strengthening, passionate, […]

The hoarfrost was beautiful for a few early hours on Monday. Additional Thanks When I mentioned the Deacons’ decorating last week I didn’t know that Billy, Jarik, and Ryken also helped. Thank you again to the entire crew. Advent Mission Project Last week at our Advent breakfast we began our collection for our special Advent […]

Clay pot figures will soon find their places in 65 clay pot nativities begun at last week’s Intergenerational Advent Event. Nativities will be given to residents of the Lutheran Home in Mendota, where Becky’s mother is a resident. A Spirited Start to Advent Last Sunday our sixth annual Intergenerational Advent Event was as wondrous as […]

I think that we all know our outer lives are only as good as our inner lives.  (Pico Ayer) This Advent’s theme of Belonging—Inside and Out will set us on an unfolding and surprising pilgrimage of belonging across the year ahead. Our inner and outer lives are not meant to be distinct from one another […]

Come, All Thankful People, Come If the only prayer you every say in your entire life is “thank you,” it will be enough. (Meister Eckhart) Thank Offering This is the Sunday we return our Thank Offering gifts. Remember, this is a noisy offering. Gifts can come in the form of change, bills, or checks, which […]

Friday, November 9, 2018 – our first snowy sunset of the season Fall Clean Up Day The fall clean-up day scheduled and cancelled for today will be rescheduled on a Saturday with gentler weather. Thank you to Joyce for our beautiful harvest altar. We will enjoy it on Sundays through the rest of the month. […]

Happy Halloween As leaves pile up this time of year with their rich colors and evidence of lives well lived, I am always reminded of our celebration of Memorial Sunday or All Saints Day. It is then that we recall the many lives that have gone before us and helped shape who and how we […]