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01/09/2026

This feels really important to share this week.

01/07/2026

For all of our couples as you start a new year, these are great intention areas. Struggling? Give us a call!

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01/05/2026

A prayer offered from Benjamin Cremer as we continue the holy Christmas season. May we work towards living into the gift of our embodied Savior as we begin a new year

Word of God,
Before time, you were.
Before fear, you spoke light.
You became flesh and made your home among us.

Teach us to see what you see.
Soften our hearts where we have learned suspicion.
Expand our imaginations where they have grown small.
Help us recognize your presence
in every face, every body, every story.

In a world addicted to division,
make us witnesses of grace.
In a culture of control,
shape us by love.

May the light that no darkness can overcome
shine through us for the healing of the world you so love.

Amen

01/01/2026

Our hope for us all as we start a new year. Hello 2026.

12/31/2025

A beautiful perspective as we look towards turning the calendar to a new year!

On the stroke of midnight tonight, you can resolve to be better, if you like…
to be fitter,
to eat cleaner,
to work harder.

On the stroke of midnight tonight,
you can resolve to become a whole new you,
if you so choose.

Or, you can take a moment to acknowledge what you already are.
Because it’s a lot.
You are a lot.

And you deserve to be truly seen.

On the stroke of midnight tonight, perhaps you could congratulate yourself, for coping.
For breaking, again,
for rebuilding, again.

For catching the stones life has thrown at you,
and using them to build your castle that little bit more beautifully.

And if you have used those stones to block yourself in for the ‘heal’, perhaps you can realign them this year. Make a grander gate, not a higher wall.

You have endured, my friend.
Through times you thought unendurable. You did.

And I don’t see the need to resolve to become a whole new you,
when you are already so very much indeed.

Happy new year.

You made it.

Now let us face another 365 day-turn, arms wide…
accepting, embracing and ‘seeing’ one other,
for all we truly are…

breaks and all.

Donna Ashworth

12/27/2025

12/25/2025

May you experience “many merry moments” today. Thank you Donna Ashworth for the eloquent reminder.

12/23/2025

Such amazing reminders for life partnerships as we begin to gather. Thank you The Secure Relationship … we love your work!!

12/21/2025

Today is the day with the longest period of darkness of the year, the winter solstice. It serves as a reminder that, in the midst of a season with expected celebration, suffering and darkness and loneliness still exist. Hardship and grief can feel even more pronounced. One way to acknowledge and gather with others who aren’t feeling “Christmas-y” is to find a church offering a service of hope and healing or blue Christmas. For those in or near Frisco, one is being held tonight at Grace Avenue UMC at 5pm. Love yourselves and others well on this fourth Sunday of Advent.

12/16/2025

Week 3 of Advent we light the candle of “joy”. That is such a loaded word in the English language. It’s not exuberance, happiness or elation. It doesnt require life to be perfect or easy or without suffering Joy is holy gift that shows up in unexpected places. It is our abikity to experience the grace of God It is not something we can manufacture but it does require us to pay attention, to notice.

“Joy doesn’t demand we silence our grief. It asks us to make just enough room for God to slip in beside it. And sometimes, that tiny crack of space is all joy needs to return.
Blessed are we who cannot fake cheer,
who sing soft instead of loud,
who light blue candles in December
and still hope joy might come.” —Kate Bowler

12/14/2025

It is often challenging to feel okay celebrating when chaos and suffering surround us. Yet, joy continues to breaks through. Year after year, time turns over, and Advent reminds us that the sacred rarely arrives as we imagine. Joy is something God gives and it shows up with bread breaking, friends laughing and around crowded tables. We gathered as a work family in our “best” holiday apparel, along with our life partners, last night to share a meal around crowded tables, to fellowship and laugh together and to offer our gratitude to our Creator who has carefully knit this team together for a time such as this. As you move through this third week of Advent, may you find the kind of joy that sneaks in and reminds you that life is good.

12/12/2025

Hosting a wellness table for the fabulous employees at Costco Prosper today. We love connecting with our community and spreading the word about mental health!