Blessing of the backpacks
Jess Rigel offers a blessing for students, families and educators as a new school year begins, honoring all they carry.
Rev. Jess Rigel lives and serves in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she enjoys preaching, teaching, and inciting joy wherever she can, particularly amongst adolescents. She shares her life with two corgis, several handmade giant puppets, and a shockingly unruly vegetable garden.
Jess Rigel offers a blessing for students, families and educators as a new school year begins, honoring all they carry.
Lent invites us into a countercultural vocation of joy, writes Jess Rigel.
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