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Filled with All Fullness
In early childhood education, there is a song for everything. Need some motivation for clean-up? There’s a song for that. Need something to help ease the transition from one activity to the next? There’s a song for that. Need something… Continue reading
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Rest and Hope
In the 1983 children’s book, Round Trip, the author, Ann Jonas casts a fairly simple story. It’s a story of a family taking a road trip to the city. The pages are simple – black and white illustrations with one… Continue reading
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A Foolish Life of Weakness
Noted author and researcher Brené Brown has a lot to say about vulnerability, weakness, and strength. In her now famous TED talk from 2014, she lays out what she had discovered in her research around shame and guilt, and more… Continue reading
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Planting and Praying
As the wind blew through the leaves on the giant oak tree above my head, I strained to see the sky through the blanket of bright green and flittering sunlight. As a kid, I would lay under this giant oak… Continue reading
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A year ago today.
The crepe myrtles are just on the cusp of blooming here in Kentucky. I grew to love crepe myrtles when I lived in Texas because they grew with abandon in the oppressive heat of West Texas; the wild beauty of… Continue reading
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Remember and Keep
“Tell me you remember you are still a human being, not just a human doing. Tell me you’re more than just a machine, checking off items from your to-do list.” This is one of the ways in which the director… Continue reading
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Sighs Too Deep
I was surrounded and the room filled with the loud sound of a family presenting to God their fears, their hopes, and their anxieties. In many ways, it was like any other day; I knocked on the non-descript hospital door… Continue reading
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Transitions in Late Spring
The southeast met me with air heavy with humidity, magnolias in bloom, and the ubiquitous smell of wild honey suckle. It met with all the memories of who I once was in light of who I am becoming. Refusing to… Continue reading
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Joyful Mourning: My First Mother’s Day
This is my first year as a mother. It’s my first year as a dog mom, that is. When I got Coakley, I thought I would refrain from using parental language around being a pet owner, but then I became… Continue reading
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We Have No Other Choice
In an article published in March of this year in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, it was discovered that it takes about 90 hours to make friends. They studied different groups of people like students or those who… Continue reading
Calling & Clarity
The Rev. Becca Kello is an Episcopal priest living and serving in Lexington, Kentucky. She often finds God’s presence in nature while hiking or out playing with her dogs, Coakley and Oliver. She is passionate about the intersections of faith and justice, and all sorts of discernment that leads to a clarity of calling.
Becca Kello 