This time away has carried me back to the enchantment of my childhood — joy in sloshing my feet through springs that welled up in the yard after rain.

I invite you this week to listen for the hope that God has sown in you and the hope that you encounter in the world. Where has God already met you in the wilderness? And whose boat, small as it is beside that great sea, might your hope help carry?

Saint Peter's Episcopal Church gathers for a parish picnic, the Capital Pride Parade, and a summer of hospitality.

Thresholds are not only for graduating seniors. In some way we are always on a threshold — whether it's the beginning of the day, a season, a job, a relationship, or a new reality we must face. Summer is its own kind of threshold, and this week Ginger Lewis's sermon has me wondering: who are you when the structure falls away?

Last Saturday night at 10:30 p.m., our usually quiet Northern Virginia neighborhood was uncharacteristically abuzz with a graduation party down the street — one of many celebrations at the end of the school year.