Sunday, January 25, 2026
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, Asheville, NC
Zoom Only (Winter Storm)
“If we don’t garner any energy, any passion, any want-to, have-to, about what is happening, then our humanity has been stolen, too.”
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Over three months since the Storm and today I felt ready to go and walk among the trees off the Blue Ridge Parkway. I knew it would be both medicinal and mournful. What we found was a tree graveyard. Hundreds, maybe thousands of trees mangled and tangled with each other. Still. Broken. Battered. Eery in the residual story they tell. Without thinking, my husband and I began talking about death–trying to remember how old family members were when they died. Reaching back into latent memories about sacred transitions and loss. My mother was eighty-four. His mother seventy-nine. My grandmother on...
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Peace,
