Breaking Up Our Fallow Ground
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Breaking Up Our Fallow Ground

Yo howdy all y’all! It is a beautiful day to visit our church (yes, every day is), and to walk around andabout our wilding of downtown wildflowers and gardens for autumn harvest. It’s been a little more than two years since Pastor Layne began placing inspiring/comforting signs along the softening edges of our sanctuary. The...

A Farewell to the Heat of Summer
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A Farewell to the Heat of Summer

Yo Howdy All Y’all – it is a beautiful day to walk about our gardens. Curiously, I felt summer was filled with beautiful days to walk about our garden, although thebest times were sunrise and sunset, there is a special satisfaction in the comfort of the pecantree canopy even if it is actually 110 degrees...

Nourishing People as an Urban Sanctury
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Nourishing People as an Urban Sanctury

Yo howdy All Yall – it is a beautiful day! One of the demonstrations that I love of our being church is that we nourish people – welcoming strangersto share at our table and experience our Austin Urban Sanctuary. Our presence downtown creates opportunities to meet people visiting our community; those engagedwith our civic process...

Reaping Generously, Even in this HEAT.
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Reaping Generously, Even in this HEAT.

Yo howdy all y’all – it is a beautiful day! Everyday around noon – when the summertime heat index accelerates it’s rise – the shade from our pecans begins to embrace the seating along our San Antonio hillside, and often there is even a soft breeze. It is comforting to pause and pray, to sit...

Thank You’s to Resilient Bloomers
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Thank You’s to Resilient Bloomers

Yo Howdy All Y’all – it is a beautiful day to be somewhere in our gardens! A special thank you to our ever-learning and now pulpit preachin’ Associate Pastor Heidi for her patiencewith me again for this overdue entry into this edition of the Window. Thank you, (I’m blaming our churchgardens – they make me...

Gardening with God
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Gardening with God

Yo howdy, all y’all, Most everything in our garden is growing like weeds – a blooming congregationof wild weeds. Gardening with God ya gotta accept some wild weeds.Hopefully, we’ll have an ongoing rotation of blooms and textured colors all the way till fall.Produce deliveries to Angel’s House Soup Kitchen are increasing in variety and weight....