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May 29, 2015 by Aaron Wright
Triangle: Faith, Family and Friends
I nearly froze when she said we were going to watch “The Antwone Fischer Story.” I thought to myself, “The f@!* I am! I already watched that, lived that, and it’s not worth repeating.” As Mary Laymon, our facilitator, would go on to explain, my anxiety was high and I felt out of control because […]Archives
May 27, 2015 by Aaron Wright
Growth, Weeds and Some Beautiful Things
We were late gathering for directions to guide our first springtime Garden Work Day, but I knew it would look better once we got through the morning. It was colder than expected. So cold, in fact, that I put my slim winter gloves under my rubber dipped gardening gloves just to keep the numbness at […]Archives
May 23, 2015 by Aaron Wright
Why I Practice Morning Prayer
Two years ago this morning we were in a delivery room exhausted, a little scared and uncertain of our next move. My wife, Brooke, had gone into labor around 6:00am the day before. We had taken 12 weeks (TWELVE WEEKS!) of birthing classes to prepare us for what we hoped would be an unmedicated, natural […]Archives
May 22, 2015 by Jane Gerdsen
Night Prayer in Northside: A Reflection from Brianna Kelly
On Tuesday evenings during Eastertide, a handful of folks have been meeting at a park on the busiest intersection in Northside for a brief gathering called Night Prayer in Northside. Earlier this year, I fell in love with the “Litany of Intercession in the Night” from Saint Augustine’s Prayer Book while on a retreat. What […]Archives
May 8, 2015 by Praxis