Grace in the Weeds

Grace in the Weeds

The Friday Greenhouse: Coming Back to the Ground

Jubilee

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Rev. Dr. Amanda Whittington
Sep 25, 2026
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Quick recap: On Tuesday we discovered that the “year of the Lord’s favor” Jesus proclaimed was the Jubilee — a great reset of rest, release, and return, built on the truth that the earth is God’s and we are its tenants and keepers. Today we come down out of the escape hatch and back into the body, and the ground.

Escapist theology doesn’t just live in the mind. It lives in a body that never quite arrives — always braced, always hustling toward the next thing, treating rest as something to be earned and the physical world as background scenery. If you were taught that this life is just a waiting room, your nervous system may not really believe it’s allowed to land here. Today we practice landing.

Potted plants on a wooden workbench inside a sunlit glass greenhouse
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