by Catherine Smith | Sep 17, 2026 | Other
“Something greater than the temple is here.” In Matthew 12: 1-6 Jesus walks through the grainfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look,... by Catherine Smith | Mar 3, 2026 | Table Church
Small, intimate gathering around a table for a meal or with tea and a cookie nearby, provide a fertile place for us to turn our hearts toward God. We settle in, our softening hearts ready for wonder and gratitude. Table Church worship is made for this. Are... by Catherine Smith | Feb 18, 2026 | Epiphany
Don’t be afraid to consider the gossamer, the shimmering the sheen of bird wing, the shapes of the light on the snow. Feel in yourself the cloud become rain, the fox lay down prints, the white froth of water gathering up the shore. That you feel it at all is a... by Catherine Smith | Dec 12, 2025 | Other
Luke1:39-55 Last week we heard the song of the Shulammite woman, and the response of her partner, who stood up from our summer table to sing of the sacredness of physical life and love, to encourage us to feel its passion, to search out and make space for in partnered... by Catherine Smith | Nov 29, 2025 | Advent
What will you give up for Advent? I know that is one of the questions traditionally tended in Lent but this year questions are shifting and turning around in me and the is one of them. The other is what will Advent do in you? Many of us have chosen... by Catherine Smith | Sep 11, 2025 | Prayers, Reflections, Sermons
Call to Worship (in the words of Hildegard of Bingen, in Scivias, The Way of Knowing) I, the firey life of divine essence,Am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows.I gleam in the waters.I burn in the sun, moon, and the stars.With every breeze,As with invisible light... by Catherine Smith | Aug 21, 2025 | Reflections
A bent woman,bent over with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years,found a place somewhere in a house of worship called a synagogue. Jesus saw her. He called her. She came to him and he touched and healed her. She began to praise... by Catherine Smith | Aug 12, 2025 | Prayers
Listen to my cry O GodAnd hear my prayer Food for uplifted handsRespect and care Listen to my cry O Godand hear my prayer Streams of your living rainIn tender air. Listen to my cry O Godand hear my prayer Repeat however many times you feel lets the prayer settle into... by Catherine Smith | Aug 11, 2025 | Prayers
May your lying down this night be an intercession, a sighed prayer into what is happening,a contrary trust in the Holy. May your lying down bean act of gentle resistanceto the striving for lives not oursand not theirs either. May it be a soft, audacious prelude to... by Catherine Smith | Jun 25, 2025 | Prayers
I lie down in the beauty of the darkand breathe the stars. I lie down in a world of tearsand breathe their wiping away. I lie down in a world of indifferenceand breathe wonder. I lie down in a world of greedand breathe grace. I lie down in a world of fearand breathe... by Catherine Smith | Jun 5, 2025 | Hymns, Pentecost, Reflections
On Pentecost we’re gatheredto wait again on Youwith mind and heart and bodyexpectant of the new.The newness of the ancientand ever-deepening callthe comfort and disturbancethat sound and make us whole. Where will the Spirit find Us,in church, at home, at... by Catherine Smith | Jun 5, 2025 | Hymns, Pentecost, Reflections
Welcome on this Pentecost DayTo a quiet momentA space into which the SpiritMay flow like wateror burst like flameor breathe. Welcome to these shared moments,in the name of Jesus Christ Let us as we always do remember . . . (Lighting of the Christ Candle in the Godly...