My Cricut went into overdrive producing Graduation Bouquets for each of our 9 graduates at church.
Congratulations to our Vinton High School grads: Travis, Derek, Kaitlyn, Chantell, Joe, Adam, and Crystal. We are sending five of these grads off to McNeese State University, one to my alma-mater Oklahoma State University, and one to cosmetology school.
We also honored Lindsay who graduated from McNeese on Saturday and began her Physicians Assistant school at LSU-Shreveport on Monday. Congrats!
Our final honoree was Jessica who is a a graduate of Vinton High, McNeese and now University of St. Augustine (Florida) with a doctorate degree in Physical Therapy. She has already started her new career at West Calcasieu - Cameron Hospital in Sulphur -- you go, girl!
The bouquets turned out nice and were fun to make!
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Time for Reflection
After Easter I often take a spiritual retreat with several of my clergy colleagues. Our usual retreat is the St. Joseph Abbey, north of New Orleans outside of Covington. St. Joseph Abbey is a Benedictine Monastery and while there, we enter into the cycle of the monks -- morning prayers, noon mass, evening vespers ... and silence! Do you have any idea how difficult silence is to maintain?
This year our retreat took us to Ponchatoula, LA to Rosaryville. Rosaryville is the original site that the Benedictines settled in the 1800s. However, they moved upstream to their present site and a group of nuns took over the retreat house at Rosaryville. I enjoyed the openness of the retreat. Without the cycle of the monks we were on our own. We were still to observe silence, but ... did I mention how hard that is?
The three days were gorgeous. I filled them with meditation, reading, art work, and of course, photography. I always find it hard to enter into the time and harder still to return to the world.
This year our retreat took us to Ponchatoula, LA to Rosaryville. Rosaryville is the original site that the Benedictines settled in the 1800s. However, they moved upstream to their present site and a group of nuns took over the retreat house at Rosaryville. I enjoyed the openness of the retreat. Without the cycle of the monks we were on our own. We were still to observe silence, but ... did I mention how hard that is?
The three days were gorgeous. I filled them with meditation, reading, art work, and of course, photography. I always find it hard to enter into the time and harder still to return to the world.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Relay for Life
Tonight we celebrated life with our cancer survivors in Relay for Life. Our plan was to be at the high school stadium, but the weather ran us inside to the American Legion. It was surely nice to be inside and high and dry as the storm raged outside!
The evening began with the walk by the cancer survivors around the circle of luminarias decorated in memory and in honor of loved ones.
Dancing and margaritas (non-alcoholic, of course), rounded out the evening.
The evening began with the walk by the cancer survivors around the circle of luminarias decorated in memory and in honor of loved ones.
Dancing and margaritas (non-alcoholic, of course), rounded out the evening.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
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