As I transition back to Berlin, I am trying to push myself back out there again. Turns out that returning back in the midst of winter makes that motivation a little bit harder. When we came back, I got sick which kept me in and it is so cozy in our nice warm flat. Having…
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Courtney McHill has been in ministry for over 10 years and is travelling the world in search of pilgrimage and new life. What is it to be theological in different spaces? What are we searching for? What will we find about God, our world and ourselves?
Transitioning back to Berlin
I am back in the European time zones after a month on the West Coast of the US and I have to say, jet lag is for reals, my friends. We had a wonderful trip and there will be much more reflection about that space and my place in that space and subsequently my transition…
Preparing myself
Advent is important to me. It is a period of waiting and preparing for new life to come, for the light to return, for God to break into our lives and become flesh, for restoring and discerning, for all of that to be a period of intention. All of this is preparation. All of this…
Home…home?
I have been pondering the concept of home a lot lately. Ana and I have talked a lot about it as we return to Berlin for a few weeks especially. As we spent our month in Spain, we nestled into our flat for the month and tried to put a few touches here and there…
Back in Berlin!
Well, for a few days. We flew back into Berlin late last night. This was us just hours earlier in La Herradura…. Yes, those are Palm Trees. Yes, we were in short sleeved shirts, sipping white wine and eating seafood soup in front of the amazing sea. Just a little windy but still we…
A moment of deep gratitude
Yesterday was a good day. Ana and I are here until tomorrow and so we are taking these days to try to be out in the sun as much as possible and soak in this moment…the sun, the sea, the seafood, the Spanish, and the ridiculously amazing sunsets here. This was the sunset from last…
Sometimes
For the past couple of days, I had been fretting and it wasn’t to the point of obsessively fretting but actively fretting. The kind of fretting that could easily move into something more obsessive. Ana had told me of someone in her life who was busy. She was taking on this and that to the…
Feeling the season change
We are feeling the seasons begin to really change here. I know that in Portland it has gotten cold and not as rainy but definitely darker and colder. In Berlin we hear about really really cold temps and gray dark days and earlier and earlier nights. Ana and I get sent pictures from Serbia showing…
Oh and about Sevilla!
Last weekend we traveled to Sevilla for the weekend. We left on a bus to Malaga on Friday afternoon and then caught a train to Sevilla. The last time I was in Sevilla I was 16 years old on a whirlwind trip with my parents and seven other teenage girls. The things I remember about…
Living in Violet 