Twice a year, Pastor Jenn attends a learning program called Next Generation Leadership Initiative. At each gathering she joins her cohort and other cohorts of young, promising clergy in the United Church of Christ for vitality treks, graduate-level intensive courses, and shared renewal.

In the blessing below, poet and pastor Jan Richardson reminds each of us that God offers space to rest, a well of love from which we all can draw hope and healing.

As we embark on a new year, and on the season of Epiphany, we offer up a blessing by Poet and Pastor Jan Richardson.

Epiphany, and January and February, are seasons of seeking, and wondering, and offering what we can when we find the light of God in the baby at the manger.