Pastor's Letter
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation starts off the week with a laugh. It is an eight year-old Irish schoolgirl who wants to demolish her school. "Can you give me a ballpark figure?" It was sent to us by Tom Marchant.
Read more: MEDITATION 733: Irish eight year old wants to demolish her school (7/25/22)
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's meditation is a reflection from the Upaya Zen Center "Swimming Upstream."
In the spirit of our philosophy of co-creating community and our awareness that the Spirit speaks through each of us, we invite you to share your meditations with us as well. We truly believe that it is God's economy of abundance: when we share our blessings, our thoughts, our feelings, we are all made richer.
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today is the 53rd Anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood. In today's Meditation, I share with you some of my reflections on those years of ministry.
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation is an op-ed that Anne Lamott wrote. David Gawlik called it to our attention. Anne Lamott is refreshing for her humanness and transparency. I resonated with her hoping to having seats in heaven near the dessert table, with her feeling small and wanting to connect with Someone and some mission bigger than me.
Read more: MEDITATION 721: Anne Lamott reflects on prayer and living (7/11/22)
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation features a reflection by Henri Nouwen who invite us to reflect on our common humanity. This was sent to us by Dave Driscoll. It reminded us of Thich Nhat Hanh's poem "Call Me By My True Names" which we have also included.
We invite you to join us as we commit ourselves to working tirelessly to end systemic and structural racism in our society, in the church, in healthcare, in the workplace--wherever it shows up so that everyone may come to have more abundant life. May this meditation nourish our contemplative-active hearts and sustain all of us in action.
Read more: MEDITATION 716: Henri Nouwen: "Inviting Closeness with the Other" (7/5/22)