Catherine's Cafe Vocation Blog

When I was younger I never really liked my name.   Some people may think well what’s in a name.   However, I believe there is power in a name and it says a lot about who you are.   Since I was not willing to go through the process of changing my name, I decided to do a little research after people kept asking me what my name meant and I didn’t know.   I found out that my name Lystra meant free.   The meaning resounded within me and ever since I have been growing into my name. Freedom is not free or easy.   With freedom comes great responsibility.   Being free doesn’t mean that I can do anything I want without consequences.   Freedom comes with a price; someone paid a price so that I could be “free” today.   Two weeks ago I did a summer course entitled- Faith and Justice in Freedom Narratives: Lessons in Ethics from the Slave Quarters.   Our class was facilitated by Dr. Katie G. Cannon and as co-learners we learned about the horr...

Well, the rains finally arrived and I took advantage of this to sow seeds of various types of vegetables that I like to eat.  I waited for a good moon and into the ground went lettuce, string beans, seim beans, bodi beans, cucumber, water melon pigeon peas, pumpkin, tomatoes, sweet peppers, ochroes, egg plant, carallie, cauliflower and more.  It's about two months now and already I have harvested tomatoes and sweet peppers.  Soon cucumbers will be ready and I am seeing baby carallie!  But I have been about sowing other seeds too.  Seeds of openness to a vocation in the little hearts of some grade three students from a nearby private school and seeds of love and reverence for earth in the hearts of some kids during an Eco-camp I conducted last week.  When is a good time to begin to sow these seeds?  Was it a good 'moon' for planting?  Will 'rain' fall on them and cause them to spring up to maturity and produce good fruit?  How long w...