Rev. T Pastor w/ The Pretty Hair

“Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.”
– Clarence W. Hall

“Hope is a song in a weary throat”

-Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray ( Of Blessed Memory)

Raised Garden Beds and Soil on cart

Picture of seeds in raised garden beds.

While it is true that many systems are having an extinction event, new life, birth is STILL occurring. I’m preparing to live and help others do the same!

I’mma grow stuff and feed some folk!

This is one of the many ways I will add to collective thriving.

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“And without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Somewhere we must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God.”

Money isn’t the root of all evil. The LOVE of money is the root of evil! Love is the word the is often missed in that passage of scripture 😊

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"We do not think ourselves into a new way of living as much as we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”
-- Julian of Norwich

“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“If we decide to keep going beyond the point where our eyes or minds are any help to us, we may finally arrive at the pinnacle of the spiritual journey toward God, which exists in complete and dazzling darkness.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor

“Those of us who wish to draw near to God should not be surprised when our vision goes cloudy, for this is a sign that we are approaching the opaque splendor of God.”

Prayer by Martha Spong

Ah, Holy Jesus, when we hold tight to things that do not serve you, may we peel ourselves back, and let you be you. Amen.

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

-- Ann Lamott

It’s a marathon, not a sprint!

Instead, I’m fighting for what comes next. I want to help build sustainable ways of living, loving, and learning, with fellow humans and the earth. Why? Because I understand that what comes next will be all of us or none of us.

I am for WE.

I am for US.

I. AM. FIGHTING.

Rev. Teña

I am fighting not to return to status quo because I understand status quo still left a significant amount of folk in the margins.

I have made the choice to stay grounded in love understanding that justice IS a part of love. That personal choice is informing what I am adding to the collective.

History has been written, the future has not. We have the ability to influence the outcome. Our individual choices combine to become collective action or inaction. I have made the choice to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with the God who I believe IS love.

It’s hard for the church to denounce the ways of empire when they more often than not look AND act like twins…

The institution known as the church will crumble with the empire, the Embodied church will not…

Hope you know which one you’re a part of…

Rev. Teña

“It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour. It is the speed we walk and therefore the speed the love of God walks.”
― Kosuke Koyama

“Love has its speed. It is a spiritual speed. It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed.”

Prayer by Rachel Hackenberg

You remember, O Eternal God, what I too easily forget: that I am not my own, that I am inherently caught up in and bound to all others. Remind me.

“Believing in God means saying: there exists an ultimate tenderness, an ultimate bosom, an infinite womb, in which I can take refuge and finally have peace in the serenity of love. If that is so, believing in God is worthwhile; it makes us more ourselves and empowers our humanity."

-Leonardo Boff

“The Spirit you invoke, influences what you manifest. Choose wisely…”

-Rev. T

“Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.”

"When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me, I shall draw a larger circle to include them. Where they speak out for the privileges of a puny group, I shall shout for the rights of all mankind."
Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, Esq.

"It is no more beneath God to speak to us using poetry, proverb, letters, and legend than it is for a mother to read storybooks to her daughter at bedtime. This is who God is. This is what God does."
Rachel Held Evans

"Dignified or not, believable or not, ours is a God perpetually on bended knee, doing everything it takes to convince stubborn and petulant children that they are seen and loved.”

My first time doing it!