This past weekend Abbie and I put up a garden fence.  It’s pretty big: 50 x 50 feet, 7 ½ feet tall.  The goal is to keep the deer and other critters out.  Inside the fence we’re hoping to grow what we can: some perennials – rhubarb, asparagus, berries and…

Although the world has change drastically in the last three weeks, it’s still Lent.  The season began on Ash Wednesday when we gathered in the sanctuary – in-person! – and shared in the imposition of ashes on one another’s foreheads.  We recited the ancient words: “Remember that you are dust,…

These past few days have been characterized by a couple different phrases potentially, but not necessarily, at odds with each other.    On Saturday the CMC Leadership Team met for our annual visioning retreat (once you do it a second year it becomes annual, right?).  After some reflection on the…

Lent is a season for slowing down and focusing on what matters most.  For many people this entails “giving up” something.  This act of fasting can be a way to practice discipline, to free up space in our lives, or simply to stop doing something that we know is not…

As far as I can tell, the only cross regularly displayed in our sanctuary is on the front of the pulpit, two thin lines that can, depending on the light, blend in with the grain of the wood in which they’re cut.  That’s about to change. Our Lenten worship theme…