A Positively Poetic Priest

One thing that may be very helpful for when you go to a new church or learn about new allergies and want to remain an active part of your church will be a Cheat Sheet for those who are in charge of food preparation. I made up the following Sheet for my own use. It has been helpful and it has been put up on the bulletin board in the kitchen for reference.  Elizabeth's Gluten, Dairy, Oat, and Soy Free Diet Allows : Fruit (apples, oranges, pears, peaches, bananas, berries, avocados, grapes, grapefruit, pineapple, dates, figs, lemons, limes, melon, pomegranates, tomatoes, etc) Vegetables (asparagus, peas, beans, broccoli, carrots, cabbage, celery, corn, herbs, lettuce, mushrooms, peppers, okra, garlic, onion, potatoes, lentils, squash, spinach, etc) Meat (chicken, pork, bacon, ham, beef, lamb, duck, fish, shrimp, etc) Grains and Flours (Rice, Corn, Potato, Tapioca, Bean, Garfava, Sorghum, Quinoa, Millet, Buckwheat, Arrowroot, Amaranth, Teff, Montina, Flax, and Nut) Nu...

8 December 2013,  2 Advent Last week Mother Leyla tried to wake y’all up. Do you feel awake yet? She reminded us that we have work to do as followers of Christ and that Advent is a time to refocus, to return to our vision which keeps us going, to remember what Christ has done for us and what Christ has promised us. Advent is thus a season of waking up, anticipation, and preparation. One of the things we are preparing for is new life, the life we have already, but not yet fully. Christ is with us, but Christ is coming. We are currently living in one life, but we are preparing for the new life that awaits us, which we anticipate.  It is mutual waiting for new life to come. We live in a time full of tension.  Yes, no, yet, but not quite yet... Maybe?  Advent is doubly tense, since it tests our resolve to have Advent at all. We could just skip, quick and easy, from celebrating Christ the King to Christ the Incarnate God!  We live in between the secular year an...