General Convention Resources

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Anglican Covenant Conference

More resources on my covenant page.

Paying Attention

Kathy Grieb preached at our diocesan convention. She quoted one of my favorite poems from Mary Oliver, The Summer Day. An excerpt here:

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.

[Update 3/2]: She must've been trying out Psalm 23.

Be still my heart.

Billy Collins on the moon

Riding the lunar eclipse made me want to paint or write poems or produce some other form of proclamation thanking god for the extraordinary creation in which we live. Since this is as close I get to that when not preaching, I turned to Billy Collins:

Moon
Invention
Man in the Moon

and from his haiku chapbook She Was Just Seventeen:
Moon in the window—
the same as it was before
there was a window.

Lunar Eclipse

Tonight I led a Lenten talk at St. Paul's Henderson about our work with Hannah Ministries in our companion diocese in Byumba, Rwanda. Everyone was apologetic that I had to drive back to Louisville so late by myself. I, however, knew that I'd be driving right into tonight's lunar eclipse, so I couldn't wait for the trip home. Isn't the moon beautiful? We take it for granted now, I think, but can you imagine life without it?

Jean Wells: Intuitive Quilting

These sure are interesting.