Justice | Community Organizing | RelationshipSermon: The Bedrock of Justice is Knowing One AnotherSt. Andrews Episcopal Church, Madison, CT ¹Do we know each other well, or just in passing? | Photo...
CONVERGING FORCES | CALLSermon: Follow the Way of Self-Giving LoveSt. Andrews Episcopal Church, Madison, CT ¹Taken from Matthew 4:12–23 (NRSV) Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he...
in the vernal pool- Spring peepers sleep in cold mud for the call to call
HAIKU | PARTICIPATIVE ART | SHORTFORMDo you have a haiku for this moment? Add it as a comment! old nest box empty after its fruitful season - algaed and lichenedRoxanne’s watercolor journal entry...
CHRISTMAS | GOOD NEWS | TAYLOR SWIFTSermon: Don’t Make Me Stop this Car!St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Madison, CT ¹ A Watercolor angel by artist Roxanne Steed | Photo by Roxanne Steed Taken from...
Haiku | Watercolor | Saturday December 24 2022 Advent Word: Birth on this holy night - She gave birth to the one who wants to be with us #birth #AdventWord Abstract watercolor painting by artist...
Haiku | Watercolor | Friday December 23 2022 Advent Word: Restore When things disappoint - golden light and growing things restore us to health #restore #AdventWord Watercolor painting by artist...
Haiku | Watercolor | Thursday December 22 2022 Advent Word: Choose we just think we choose - sometimes the mystery makes the choices for us #choose #AdventWord Watercolor abstract by artist...
Haiku | Watercolor | Wednesday December 21 2022 Advent Word: Obedience give ear and listen to the pleadings of nature - needs obedience #Obedience #AdventWord Watercolor painting by artist Roxanne...
Haiku | Watercolor | Tuesday December 20 2022 Advent Word: H surfside Kerry cows - hear the lows announcing it the waves that speak out #hear #AdventWordOil painting by artist Roxanne Steed on...
Haiku | Watercolor | Monday December 19 2022 Advent Word: Sign light on horizon - warning to ones a-sailing a sign to seekers #sign #AdventWord Watercolor painting by artist Roxanne Steed | Photo...
Haiku | Watercolor | Sunday December 18 2022 Advent Word: Purify Keep just the essence - Purify motion gesture and joyful tulle skirts #purify #AdventWord Watercolor painting at Chateau Orquevaux,...
Haiku | Watercolor | Saturday December 17 2022 Advent Word: Majesty mother of God and son of man play on the beach - majesty enfleshed #majesty #AdventWord Watercolor painting at Inch Beach,...
Haiku | Watercolor | Friday December 16 2022 Advent Word: Traveller traveller pathway - lingering vulnerably in heartful places #traveller #AdventWordWatercolor painting at Chateau Orquevaux,...
Haiku | Watercolor | Wednesday December 14 2022 Advent Word: Beloved FEELING belovéd - gathered with community and wildflowers #beloved #AdventWordWatercolor painting by artist Roxanne Steed of...
Haiku | Watercolor | Thursday December 15 2022 Advent Word: Thirsty sky-colored channels drench the thirsty marsh grasses - tidewaters flowing #thirsty #AdventWordWatercolor painting at Barn...
Haiku | Watercolor | Tuesday December 13 2022 Advent Word: Stranger wisp of connection as we pass by the stranger - can we go deeper? #stranger #AdventWord Watercolor journal "carrot people"...
Haiku | Watercolor | Monday December 12 2022 Advent Word: Wilderness in the wilderness only clouds change over time - inner-outer fog #wilderness #AdventWordWatercolor journal cloud demonstration...
Haiku | Watercolor | Sunday December 11 2022 Advent Word: Messenger "do not be afraid!" - the messenger carries words of hope and comfort #messenger #AdventWord Watercolor angel by Artist Roxanne...
ADVENT | BELONGINGSt. Andrews Episcopal Church, Madison, CT ¹ Are You Sure You’re the One? "You brood of vipers!" Do you remember that phrase from last week? I saw several of you scribbling notes...
Haiku | Watercolor | Saturday December 10 2022 Advent Word: Flourish hearts vibrating with hopeful frequencies of love - they find and flourish #flourish #AdventWord Watercolor painting by Artist...
Haiku | Watercolor | Friday December 9 2022 Advent Word: fire heart-fire of people who sang away our grieving - common loss and hope #fire #AdventWord Watercolor painting by Artist Roxanne Steed |...
Haiku | Watercolor | Thursday December 8 2022 Advent Word: breathe hills have life within - they breathe quietly resting with crops and blue sky #breathe #AdventWordWatercolor painting by Artist...
Haiku | Watercolor | Tuesday December 6 2022 Advent Word: welcome lavender welcome - gentle hospitality bending giving-way #welcome #AdventWordWatercolor painting by Artist Roxanne Steed | Photo...
Haiku | Watercolor | Monday December 5 2022 Advent Word: rain plinking pattering - then a more lilting rain from kindness toward soaking #rain #AdventWordWatercolor painting by Artist Roxanne...
Haiku | Watercolor | Wednesday December 7 2022 Advent Word: winnowing tossing life aloft to separate fear from joy - Spirit winnowing #winnowing #AdventWord Watercolor painting by Artist Roxanne...
Haiku | Watercolor | Sunday December 4 2022 Advent Word: delight delight is finding someone living their best life - cat meditation #delight #AdventWord Watercolor journal entry by Artist Roxanne...
Haiku | Watercolor | Saturday December 3 2022 Advent Word: unity the One we worship - wants nothing more than to be with in unity #unity #AdventWord Watercolor journal entry by Artist Roxanne...
Haiku | Watercolor | Friday December 2 2022 Advent Word: Ready young wedded couple - their new life stands before them volkswagen ready #ready #AdventWord Watercolor journal entry by Artist...
Haiku | Thursday December 1 2022 Advent Word we make artfully with paper brush and pigment - peaceful practices #make #AdventWord Watercolor Artist Roxanne Steed practicing peace | Photo by Ron Steed
Haiku | Watercolor | Wednesday November 30 2022 Advent Word ridge-lines and mountains - are slate-stained and stretched across the arc of the way #mountains #AdventWord Slate-colored mountains...
Haiku | Watercolor |Tuesday November 29 2022 Advent Word we teach to convey the joy and gladness of our creativity #teach #AdventWord Watercolor Artist Roxanne Steed in a teaching moment at...
Haiku | Watercolor | Monday November 28 2022 Advent Word two trunks fused in love - as though a force of nature oned them together #together #AdventWord Photo of a watercolor painting by Artist...
Haiku | Sunday November 27 2022 Advent Word "walk, don’t run!", says she - himself ambles to the pub to keep that wisdom #walk #AdventWord Oil painting by Artist Roxanne Steed | Photo by Roxanne Steed
Clip source: Editing%20Sermon%3A%20Abandoning%20the%20Self%20%u2013%20Medium ST ANDREW’S DAY | THE WAY Sermon: Abandoning the SelfSt. Andrews Episcopal Church, Madison, CT ¹Taken from Matthew...
earth-tones saturate autumn pumpkins and flowers - seedtime fruitfulness
time of golden light season of raking shadows - fall falls on farm fields
goldenrod seed heads foreshadow the coming snow - blowing drifty fluff
goldenrod seed heads foreshadow the coming snow - blowing drifty fluff
that liminal time when green and gold are partners - october brilliance
St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Madison, CT ¹JUSTICE | FAITH | AUTHENTIC STORYTELLING Taken from:Luke 18:1-8 (NRSV)Jesus told the disciples a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose...
Sermon for 16 Pentecost (year C), September 25, 2022 St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Madison, CT I had a good friend who retired from the Navy not so long ago. He and his wife were pretty well-off...
SHORTFORM | HEALING | HEARTDo We Know What They Need?Praying for the Healing of Others Healing prayer is tricky. We think we know what another needs, but do we? Really, we haven’t got a clue; but...
sulfer-shelf mushrooms - fashioned like fans for pharaoh to freshen the woods
plinking plattering - summer-rain juices color softens the foot-fall
flute-throated oysters belt out the tumble-tree blues - chorus of mushrooms
woods-walk in bare feet crispy moss moans for water - hard on sole and soul
poplar drought drop - she sheds her shirts to shrink the laundry load
ripened red berries - found way through the undergrowth to entice the birds
griefs dropped on the path roots lift in love to the leaves - pheromone rainstorm
Warning! Danger! Bees! - their honey-nest just outside wisely-closed window
a rain-softened day - wispy-mist gentles the eyes colors glow lines blend
the empty heartspace - aches to be filled with the beans of freshly ground love
let the bee-pace be branch-sway opens the heart-space - sun-like inner light
food artfully real - tastes of wheatgrass, vineyards and mycelium’d soil
20220619 Sermon for Proper 7 It was my joy and pleasure yesterday to bear witness to Jill’s ordination to the Sacred Order of Deacons. Now, when you have more than one Deacon in a given location,...
20220814 Sermon for Proper 15 and Feast Day of Jonathan Daniels, at St. Andrews Episcopal Chruch, Madison, CT On this day, we celebrate the life of Jonathan Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian who...
Sermon for Trinity Sunday June 12, 2022. St Peter’s Episcopal Church Hebron, CT Come, Holy Trinity, fill our hearts, and kindle in us the FIRE of your love. Good morning friends! My am Deacon Ron...
Sermon for Easter Sunday April 17, 2022. St Andrew’s Episcopal Church Madison, CT Come, Holy Spirit, fill our hearts and kindle in us the fire of your love. They burst through the door of the...
Three companions sit at a table waiting for the news, quietly and lovingly regarding one another. After eons, the cusp of the moment has finally come. They think back to a time so distant that it...
Sermon for 1 Epiphany (Year C), January 9, 2022 St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Madison, CT. "All the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John,...
Sermon for 6 Epiphany (Year C), February 13, 2022 St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Madison, CT. When I was in the Navy, I was once stationed at The Pentagon with a small team who had tremendous...
lamentation - Rachel weeps for children who are no more Do you have a haiku for this moment? #innocents #weeping #lamentation
Deacon Stephen's light - rakes low enough to shine in dark places Do you have a haiku for this moment? #deacon #light #shine
Saint John testifies to the flaming heart revealed - the light we walk in Do you have a haiku for this moment? #heart #flame #light
the winter meadow - stands stiffly in tweed coats and golden breeches Do you have a haiku for this moment? #winter #meadow #tweed
tidal marsh mud flat - collector of detritus and loose shoes Do you have a haiku for this moment? #mudflat #detritus #shoes
wind-whipped ripples bent along the mud flat - riprap abstract Do you have a haiku for this moment? #ripples #mudflat #riprap
cold season samba - swirly leaves swish and sway to the meadow-beat Do you have a haiku for this moment? #samba #sway #meadow
solidago - frosty gold that glints with seasonal glory Do you have a haiku for this moment? #solidago #gold #glory
winter's trail scales the meadow grasses under bones of tree and sky Do you have a haiku for this moment? #trail #meadow #bones
simple phragmites - to bow and to bend they shan't be ashamed Do you have a haiku for this moment? #phragmites #simplegifts #bow
smilax the wood nymph- she had prickly character and a heart on fire Do you have a haiku for this moment? #smilax #nymph #heart