Resilient intentionality. Gardening. “Now faith is the assurance that what we hope for will come about, and the certainty that what we cannot see exists.” (Hebrews 11:1 ISV). The gardens at our Church were begun as formal, referencing the Mediterranean gardens near the Italian church that inspired the design of our Sanctuary building. Landscaping to...
Yo howdy All y’all! From the beginning our congregation has gardened. Well, from the opening of our present Sanctuary grounds, anyway. The generations our Congregation that gathered at 8th and Colorado grew the congregation, building three buildings, each larger than the one before. The front corners of those buildings directly met with the sidewalk and...
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” Genesis 2:15 Yo howdy All Y’all! If you’re reading, we each woke up this morning! Again! Fearless thru the Valley of the Shadow of death. “This is the day Creation hath made, let...
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...
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...
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....
