We, as western-thought humans, have not been taught to listen to the Land. This causes problems when it comes to understanding how best to be stewards of Mother Earth, her waters, and all beings who live upon her. This is one of the reasons we struggle with what it means to have dominion over creation. […]
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Stewardship of our Inner World
Much of our stewardship talk is about how we use our resources in the outer world. How generous are you with your finances? Where do you offer your time, talent, skills to help others? How do you call others mercifully and compassionately to accountability for their actions, their lack of stewardship? These are all outer-world […]
Stewardship: Being Custodians
Stewardship means experiencing everything as gifted to us by the Sacred. Everything! This includes our skills, abilities, talents, spiritual gifts, qualities, financial resources, Land, food, shelter, community, family, friends, blessings, abundance, hopes and desires, goals and accomplishments. All of it has been gifted and supported by the presence and work of the Sacred. Stewardship invites […]
Stewardship as a lifestyle
Stewardship is a word we throw around every Fall in churches. We talk about stewardship at the time of the year when we are creating our church budgets and asking people to pledge their giving for the next year. We have narrowed stewardship down to dollars. Because of that, often times we do not want […]
The mountaintop fall…
We like to think that we can stay on the mountaintop, on the spiritual high. We are not meant to. The mountaintop moments encourage us, instill hope back in us for when we are not on the mountain tops. The mountaintop moments give us the opportunity to feel success, to breathe in victor, to see […]