How are things with your soul? 

In this season of Advent waiting, I hope and pray that you are asking yourself that question. And that you have a space to speak or write your response. With a friend. In your journal. While taking part in worship.

But perhaps it is you always asking the question. And you could really use a little time and space for responding to that question, when you are not in charge of anything or leading anyone else...  
 

How is it with your soul today? 

The last 33 months have been so much. They have taken quite a toll... on life, on church, on everyone who is called to ministry, on our relationships, and our embodied ways of being in the world. We are living in a new era of ministry. But that also means we are grieving the era that is passing away. 
 

 Every day and every week. Life keeps coming at us. Whether you are teaching, or writing, or preaching, or visiting patients who are ill or dying. All the while you are also trying to anticipate and live fully into this new moment. And simultaneously grieving many losses -- personal and corporate. 

How is your soul navigating all of this? And more. The more that only you know deeply...

In these weeks of Advent waiting, I hope you have space for responding unhurriedly to these questions. 

I'm planning two times with this kind of space. I am inviting you to drink deeply from silence and space for thinking, lamenting, reflecting, and dreaming.  

Perhaps you've been planning ALL the things. And need a bit of time and support to just be. To participate rather than lead. To consider the questions and have time to respond in your heart and mind and journal. To talk with another person. To sit in silence. Or simply hear the music rather than lead it. 

If this is what you are longing for, then join me for The Longest Night Service (12/21) or the Tending the Fires Workshop (12/28). If you need a space to write now and in the coming year, I hope you will consider the Writing Table. We are making space for you and your questions. We are making space for your soul.  
 

I look forward to welcoming you. 
 

Peace, Light, and Hope, 

Eileen