Writing

At the very beginning of this year, long before I knew how 2025 would unfold, I wrote a blog post from a little wooden pew at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit. I didn’t know it then, but I was standing on the edge of a year that would ask more of me than I thought I had to give. A year of pruning, of waiting, of allowing—however imperfectly—for God to work beneath the surface. (If you missed that reflection, you can read it here .) On Saturday, as I stepped into my pre-ordina

Church of the Nativity Fayetteville, GA November 16, 2025 23rd Sunday After Pentecost Watch: Listen: Read: One of the great gifts of the spiritual life is that our stories don’t belong to us alone. Somewhere along the way, usually in a season we never would have chosen, God steps into the narrative, and something shifts. It’s not always that our circumstances change or even the outcome, but something in us does. And that moment becomes part of the story we carry forward, som

Church of the Nativity Fayetteville, GA November 9, 2025 22nd Sunday After Pentecost Job 19:23-27a; Psalm 17:1-9; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17;Luke 20:27-38 Watch: Listen: Read: One of my favorite poems begins: "My God my bright abyss  into which all my longing will not go once more I come to the edge of all I know and believing nothing believe in this:” And the poem ends there, with a colon, so you expect a second stanza, a description of what the poet believes. You are lef