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Author: Janet Strickler

February 14, 2018March 9, 2018 by Janet Strickler

Sometimes the Road is Rough

In the season of Lent, we acknowledge that our path through life is sometimes straight and sometimes winding; sometimes smooth and sometimes rocky. We are bound to encounter opposition, anger, disappointment, loss…
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December 3, 2017December 25, 2017 by Janet Strickler

That’s How the Light Gets In!

It is no accident that Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, and Hanukkah are clustered around the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere (and even Diwali is close by.)  This is the time of year…
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June 6, 2017June 27, 2017 by Janet Strickler

The Comforter

One of my favorite names for the Holy Spirit has always been “the Comforter.” Sometimes when I'm sick, or sad, or upset, or frightened, there’s nothing better than curling up on the…
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March 20, 2017June 6, 2017 by Janet Strickler

Living Water

Water is such a powerful part of our lives that it has long held meaning for humans on a spiritual as well as physical level.  The following sermon was part of a…
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March 1, 2017June 6, 2017 by Janet Strickler

The Memory of Trees

Humankind’s relationship to trees goes well back into pre-history.  Early people might not have had the same knowledge we have about the necessity of trees in our ecosystems, where they exchange carbon…
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February 26, 2017July 20, 2017 by Janet Strickler

Transfiguration of Us and Creation

The above image is "Transfiguration," by Montana artist Linda McCray On the final Sunday before Lent, we always read the story of the Transfiguration of Christ.  This is the end of Epiphany…
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Enkindled - detail
January 12, 2017April 23, 2017 by Janet Strickler

Enkindled

The light that dawns on us at Epiphany is the same light that came into being at the dawn of creation; Infinite God manifest in finite form. Grant that this light, enkindled…
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November 27, 2016April 23, 2017 by Janet Strickler

Fertile Ground

I've often made Advent art with themes of pregnancy, and of nesting, but this is the first one about soil fertility! Beneath the surface of our yards and gardens, forests and parks,…
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August 26, 2016February 17, 2017 by Janet Strickler

The Web of Life

  This summer I've been reading and listening to a lot of John Muir, along with other great thinkers in the area of naturalism, and the relationship between spirituality and nature.  Muir's…
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detail - Renew the Face of the Earth
March 27, 2016February 18, 2017 by Janet Strickler

Renew the Face of the Earth

  Easter-tide is a time of both inner and outer renewal, refreshment, and refurbishment.  In the northern hemisphere, we observe the physical world around us coming to life, as the days lengthen…
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