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.

  • It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. Gabriel García Márquez (via bookmania) Continue reading

  • sunsurfer:  Rainforest Canopy Walkway, Borneo photo by Jollence Lee Continue reading

  • I can paint the world.

    I was rounding out the outlined circle for my painting of the Earth for my preschool classroom and it hit me. That moment when you are struck with the beautiful genius of this life we live and you get goosebumps.  I know… Continue reading

  • The A.T. on CNN

    northtomaine: For a nice refresher, check out this rundown of the Appalachian Trail today on CNN. The A.T. on CNN Continue reading

  • Laughter is beautiful. Kindness is beautiful. Cellulite is beautiful. Softness and plumpness and roundness are beautiful. It’s more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous, than to sit for pictures. A woman’s soft tummy is a… Continue reading

  • I am more than my past.

    My grandmother was an overt racist; growing up in a small town in middle Tennessee paved that way of life. She wasn’t the “quiet, ignore people with brown skin” racist, but the vehement, outspoken kind that makes your stomach turn… Continue reading

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  • The balancing act between how much rule-making you like in language and how much you like language to evolve naturally isn’t necessarily the point of the serial comma debate (to me, the reasons to keep it have absolutely nothing to… Continue reading

  • There is a quietness to nature, and the beauty is that it’s never silent. Continue reading

  • Atheistic Prayer

    I am more than lucky to have a group of acquaintances and friends with whom I get to discuss God, god, and morality on a weekly basis. It’s such a big part of my life that when people ask me what I’m… Continue reading