With unseasonable thunderstorms rumbling in the distance, today I’m unpacking a cherished nativity set, including a beloved but battered shepherd with a reattached head. As Christmas comes around each year, I arrange the figures so that each can “see” the baby Jesus in the center. Today I’m also preparing for an infant baptism. On SundayContinue reading “Ministering to Weary Souls”
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Lord, Make Us New
In an unfortunate run-in with heavy construction equipment, a 100-year-old post oak on Abbey property sustained significant damage (pictured). Post oaks, along with blackjack oaks, cedar elms and pines, populate the Abbey property and much of this area—the Cross Timbers ecoregion running from southeastern Kansas through Oklahoma to central Texas. Despite its severe injury, thatContinue reading “Lord, Make Us New”
Safe Space
As one of our supportive friends, I hope to see you at our 4th Anniversary worship celebration on Trinity Sunday, May 26, 2024 at 10:00 am at Trinity Lakeside Abbey. We have much to celebrate. After a year of prayer and discernment, we began in uncertain times—the first global pandemic in a century. And frankly,Continue reading “Safe Space”
Beautiful Sameness
There’s a place in the Colorado Rockies at an elevation of about 11,000 feet that’s a kind of touchstone for our family. It’s a high ridge on the West Spanish Peak overlooking a broad, verdant valley. Over the years we’ve fondly referred to this overlook as the Sound of Music spot. Most years we makeContinue reading “Beautiful Sameness”
Beginnings
Since our inception on Trinity Sunday 2020, people have asked how Trinity Lakeside began and what we are about. The vision for this community began in January 2019 at a convent atop a hill in the San Francisco bay area. Towering over the convent grounds are coastal live oak and eucalyptus trees, their great verdantContinue reading “Beginnings”