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It’s a Wrap! – 2025 Year in Review

by Rev. Dr. Kelly Jackson Brooks. LPCCDecember 31, 2025 Uncategorized0 comments
As 2025 comes to a close, we pause to reflect with deep gratitude on a year shaped by rest, renewal, and faithful presence. At Chrysalis Counseling for Clergy, our work is rooted in a simple but vital truth: those who care for others also deserve care. This year, that commitment continued to take shape in meaningful and measurable ways. Rest & Renewal Retreats remained a...
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’Tis the Season!

by Rev. Dr. Kelly Jackson Brooks. LPCCDecember 25, 2025 Uncategorized0 comments
Lessons in Gratitude for a New Year ’Tis the season—of lists and lights, endings and beginnings. A season when the calendar tells us one thing is ending and another is about to begin, even if our hearts are still catching up. Gratitude often shows up this time of year as something we are supposed to feel. We are encouraged to name blessings, count joys, and move quickly toward...
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Advent 4

by Rev. Dr. Kelly Jackson Brooks. LPCCDecember 19, 2025 Uncategorized0 comments
For the next several weeks, we welcome guest writers from the Chrysalis Board of Directors as they share their thoughts and perspectives from the Gospel writers during this Season of Advent. Enjoy! There is a moment in every life of faith when circumstances cause words to rise from deep within the soul — not in the form of doctrine or duty, but from the heart as a song. For Mary, like many...
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Advent 3: Patience…

by Rev. Dr. Kelly Jackson Brooks. LPCCDecember 12, 2025 Uncategorized0 comments
For the next several weeks, we welcome guest writers from the Chrysalis Board of Directors as they share their thoughts and perspectives from the Gospel writers during this Season of Advent. Enjoy! Patience is not my spiritual gift. Patiently waiting is my least favorite oxymoron. The absurdity of ‘patiently’ waiting is not lost on my heart. Waiting for the baby to be born. Waiting for...
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Advent Devotional

by Rev. Dr. Kelly Jackson Brooks. LPCCDecember 5, 2025 Uncategorized0 comments
I love the season of Advent in the church. The sanctuary draped in deep purple (or blue) paraments. Fresh greenery threaded across the altar and windowsills—cedar, pine, maybe a sprig of holly tucked where only the children notice. The smell of warm bread drifting from the kitchen, rising and filling the hallways with the promise of communion. The Advent wreath glowing with just...
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Season of Advent: Week One — Hope, Waiting, and Finding Ourselves

by Rev. Dr. Kelly Jackson Brooks. LPCCNovember 28, 2025 Uncategorized0 comments
The Season of Advent marks the beginning of the Christian year—a four-week journey that leads us to Christmas. The word Advent comes from the Latin adventus, meaning coming or arrival. It is a season that holds two truths at once – We remember Christ’s first coming into the world and we anticipate Christ’s continued coming into our lives. Advent invites us into a sacred kind of...
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Taking a Collective Breath in a Season of Thanksgiving

by Rev. Dr. Kelly Jackson Brooks. LPCCNovember 21, 2025 Uncategorized0 comments
As we enter the season of Thanksgiving, many of us feel a familiar mixture of anticipation and saturation. This time of year, brings a flurry of gatherings, travel, planning, emotions, and expectations. It can be a life giving season —and it can be a complete drain on the spirit. Somewhere between preparing the meal, navigating family dynamics, and keeping up with work and life, we can lose...
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Transitions & a Cup of Coffee

I am a big fan of coffee – church coffee, boutique coffee, Starbucks. It does not completely matter to me if my coffee originates from an espresso maker crafted ever so carefully with beautiful artwork showing through the foam from the local coffee shop, or straight from the verismo tucked in the corner of my office. I just enjoy my coffee.

I am also a fan of sharing sacred conversations with those dearest and most important to me over something as simple or complex as a cup of coffee. Conversations that are light and fun that share in celebrations and excitement, and conversations that sit on the soul in a different way. It’s the conversations of life, and laughter, tears, frustrations, broken relationships, and reconciliation. I enjoy a full life of connection.

I find myself this season seeped in sacred conversations embodied by the topic of transitions. These sacred conversations are conversations I find myself having with others as well as with myself. Transitions that include relationship shifts, employment discernment, and faith community affiliations. And yes, these conversations often happen over a simple, yet complex cup of coffee which for me, serves as a reminder of that which is a constant in my life – a grounding if you will to what is present, now. 

I encourage each of you to find your grounding  – in the midst of simple and complicated and complex conversations which is what makes life so very rich. Seek out those whom you love and care for dearly, and share in this grounding wherever those moments take you. 

Grace & Peace,

The Chrysalis Team

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