Yo howdy All Y’all! It is a beautiful day! We are in the season of Lent, of preparing for Easter, preparing for Spring. Our gardens are a testament, affirmation, demonstration and metaphor of the Resurrection. “In faith: unity; in opinion: liberty; In all things: Love.” As Disciples of Christ, we each discern what the Resurrection...
Author: Phil Conard (Phil Conard)
A Little Bit of Country
Yo howdy All Y’all. It is a beautiful day. Our garden is a funny place, encompassing all four sides of the half-block pasture embracing our church. Our “little country church in a hilltop field of lantana and sunflowers”. Funny to find that in downtown Austin. Nestled as it is between a parking garage, County and...
Sharing Sunflowers
Sunflowers. El girasol in Spanish; in Lipan Apache, indigenous to our area: Sheine lende. Yo howdy, we have an abundance of sunflowers once again – cultivated, corralled by curbs and cultivated where color and space called. We have entered a time when many are beginning again to celebrate our journey towards a more perfect union....
Gardening with God
Yo howdy All y’all – It is always a beautiful day to be in this garden of life, even on – and perhaps especially – the days of rain. “Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness...
Broken Branches
Yo howdy All y’all! This is the day Creation hath made, let us rejoice in it! “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God… This is the first and great commandment. And thesecond is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”(Matthew 22; 34-39 KJV) Days and nights of freezing...
Winter Abundance
Yo howdy all y’all – It is always a beautiful day for Psalm 23: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.He makes green pastures for me in which to lay; he leadsme beside still waters. He restores my soul; he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.Yea, though I...





