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Reflections on being seen and supported (or not) by family and community as you come home changed, or as you embark on a journey, a mission, a life’s adventure

And this is it. This is the life we get here on earth. We get to give away what we receive. We get to believe in each other. We get to forgive and be forgiven. We get to love imperfectly. And we never know what effect it will have for years to come. And all […]

Meditations on Thanksgiving Week from multiple perspectives: sorrow, celebration, gratitude, remembrance, and resistance.

Not for victory,but for the day’s work doneas well as I was able;not for a seat upon the daisbut at the common table.— Charles Reznikoff, excerpt from poem: Te Deum Eating with the fullest pleasure – pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance – is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with […]

Mothers and miracles: matriarchs and mothers and others who love us and start us on the path to becoming whole human beings

… give them to all the people who helped mother our children. … I don’t want something special. I want something beautifully plain. Like everything else, it can fill me only if it is ordinary and available to all. — Anne Lamott Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are. […]

Christmas Pageant 2018

JCC 121618 – Pageant from architect on Vimeo.

UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES for Youth & Families at Jackson Community Church

(See end of posting for summer intensives and international internships for youth & young adults. Fast-approaching deadlines [March 15, April, etc] for registration and applications or scholarships for some of these opportunities.) HOLY WEEK (Mar 25-Apr 1) EVENTS (separate post) THURSDAYS, Mar 15 & Mar 22 Soup & Ski with Family & Friends 5pm • […]