Pastor's Letter
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today is Helen Keller’s birthday, the woman who triumphed over the childhood loss of sight, hearing, and speech to become an author and lecturer. She said once, “The world is full of suffering. It is also full of the overcoming of it.” And because of the way that she herself dealt with those losses, millions of disabled people have lived fuller lives.Today's Meditation recounts some of her story.
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation features a song by Ed McCurdy: "Last night I had the strangest dream." It was sent to us by my sister Mary with the accompanying article about their dear friends, Dean and Bette Premo singing this song and others at a concert to raise money for Ukrainian Refugees. The lyrics are below as well as two renditions of it one by Johnny Cash another by John Denver. Before singing the song, John Denver recites The Peace Poem in which he says "there still is time to make all hatred cease and give another name to living and call it peace."
Read more: MEDITATION 705: "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" by Ed McCurdy (6/24/22)
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation features a poem by Wendell Berry "What we need is here." It further echoes in the reflections by Joan Chittister on prayerfulness: "the capacity to walk in touch with God through everything in life."
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 702: "What We Need is Here" by Wendell Berry echoes in Joan Chittister's...
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation features Jon Batiste at a Jazz Festival, playing and singing "It's a wonderful World."
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.
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.
Read more: MEDITATION 700: Jon Batiste: "What a Wonderful World" (6/17/22)
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation features Maria Popova reflecting (with the help of inspiring historical figures) on Susan Cain's Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole.
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.