“Reflections” Blog

A Pandemic Thanksgiving Oh God, During this Thanksgiving season, our hearts are immensely heavy, and so we lament. Covid has taken so many lives and has isolated us one from another, racism and [...]

Near the beginning of the pandemic, here in Northern California, the time to plant our summer garden came in mid-April. Sheltering in place had abruptly and completely changed the place and pace [...]

A few years ago, my husband and I read a little book about the “potager”, the French kitchen garden. The author of the book described a practice of going into the garden every morning and looking [...]

We can't stop listening to this beautiful blessing sung by people from churches all over the United Kingdom.

We were touched by this writing from the Covid Response Team in Belfast Ireland and thought you might be too. When you go out and see the empty streets, The empty stadiums, the empty train [...]

A beautiful prayer written by Rev. Eva Sullivan-Knoff, Spiritual Director & Executive Director of Journey Center of Chicago.

We have long envisioned a blog on this JCA website, but never in a million years could I have imagined that I would be writing this first post in the midst of a terrible global pandemic...