The Mustard Seed Conspiracy

Submissions for this year's Advent Calendar have already begun to trickle in, and I'm always amazed at the beauty of your work. It feels like such a gift and a privilege to be on this recieving end. I can't wait for them to be shared.

I wanted to send a reminder that there's one more week to enter your Advent submissions! Deadline to submit is November 24th, 2020.

https://www.themustardseedconspiracy.com/submissions

A liturgy for Juneteenth.

Common Prayer | Common Prayer In 1865, slaves in Texas were the last to learn of their emancipation following the defeat of the Confederate States of America. In African-American communities throughout the United States, this good news of liberation to the captives is still celebrated as Juneteenth.

I had no idea the world would be in the state it's currently in as I started this Lent series. I have been somewhat in awe of the relevance of some these submissions, considering they were created, submitted, and chosen before any of this was going on. We now find ourselves in what I recently heard deemed "the Lent of all Lents." Tell me about it. To be honest, I have not been sure how to proceed. Here we are, encouraging a time of pressing in to our brokenness, while our brokenness and human fragility has suddenly become much more obvious. I have chosen to continue to post Lent submissions through Holy Week and Easter, and will be praying that they serve as prompts toward an opportunity for gutsy self-reflection, and serve to reflect the Light that reveals our brokenness.

Here is a new poem on the blog this week by Sara Cassidy.

LENT: WHEN I'M NOT FRANTIC — The Mustard Seed Conspiracy For lent I gave up caffeine— my drug of choice. Somewhere I had decided that life was too hard to live without caffeine, so I kept slurping it down. Oh God, now I have to feel!

Let these words by Greg Dietz remind us that the wound os where the light gets in. Remember that there's so. much. grace. as we are forced to press in to all that broken.

LENT: WHERE THE LIGHT GETS IN — The Mustard Seed Conspiracy Lent was always my season in the Liturgical calendar. While all those around me seemed to celebrate the divine nature of Christ and celebrate His resurrection every week, I felt that the Lenten season was when I found Christ’s humanity on display. As he spent forty days in the desert being tempted...