JUST ADD SPICE

Cooking is always about imagination and possibility. It’s about what these things can become together and I don’t think using words to attempt to approach God is any different. 

We need each other to find inspiration. We share recipes and try new things. We wonder about what else could work even when don’t feel the least bit creative. 

These pages are all about helping each other to cook up some good trouble.  If you don’t find what you’re searching for above, please drop me a line to see if we can stir up some goodness together.

WELCOME TO MY KITCHEN

There are stacks of cookbooks in my actual kitchen and probably a sink full of dirty dishes leftover from another delicious feast but my virtual kitchen is full of liturgies and resources to pepper the worship experience in your congregation with love and hope. Find something new over in my kitchen.

COME ON IN

“Cooking [up good worship] is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” 

— Harriet Van Horn (adapted)

  • Party

    This summer, I made the long journey to France (and it was one of those travel adventures that you only pray you’ll survive) to attend my friend Julie’s wedding.  Julie was marrying Antoine.  She married him in French.  I didn’t… Continue reading

  • Beautifully Different

    I’m feeling like I can’t be witty and engaging every day — and now, well, now it seems like my various sources of inspiration are ganging up on me.  I think that my online journey this Advent and the good… Continue reading

  • Community

    This word prompted by the good people at #Reverb10 is something I talk about a lot. I believe in community.  It is the greatest commandment — the very one that we mark and honor on every Holy Thursday as followers of… Continue reading

  • Make

    “The handcrafted life is very much like this. It takes a lifetime to accomplish. It emerges from a small and infinitely exquisite piecing together of one’s inner and outer lives, these being crafted, played, woven together every day, every week, every month, come… Continue reading

  • Let Go

    The prompt from #Reverb10 today is to explore that thing or that person that you have let go of this year. I don’t really want to answer this question.  I don’t want it to appear in black and white because it’s… Continue reading

  • Wonder

    I finished the prayer that has had its home on my easel for a long time now.  It’s hanging now.  Piled among the other prayers I’ve painted.  And now, a new blank page waits upon my easel.  I keep wandering… Continue reading

  • Moment

    Photo by David Paul Ohmer. I’ve been thinking about thresholds today.  It was a prompt from my online journey this Advent inspired by this poem from Octavio Paz.  I’ve been wondering what doors will open and what passageways I want… Continue reading

  • Writing

    On Monday night, I invited a small group of church members to let go of language.  I asked them to pray in color, but I didn’t ask them to do this in any particular way.  I invited them to find… Continue reading

  • One Word

    Exodus 18.1-12 by Rev. Elsa A. Peters My first prompt from #Reverb10 asks for One Word.  The very first prompt of this journey asks me to pick one word to encapsulate the year 2010.  One word.  I’m supposed to explain this… Continue reading

  • What is Hidden

    The email prompt this morning for my online journey through Advent urged me to wake up early one day this week. Um. That’s not going to happen. Ever. I really, really like my sleep and I’m not a morning person.… Continue reading

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