Pastor's Letter
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation features Matthew Fox putting Thomas Merton and Meister Eckhart in dialogue with Buddhism and Christianity to explore the Divine Spark within all things. Ubuntu (I am because you are) also adds light and love and connection. We all grow together. Everything belongs. Nothing is lost: there is a spiritual as well as physical conservation (and conversation) of energy--as you already experience.
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.
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Do you ever daydream or just enjoy listening to the ocean lapping on the shore or looking at the daisies swaying in the breeze as I am doing right this minute. Today's Meditation features Carrie Newcomer reflecting on our phones or TVs pinging us with "breaking news" in her "The Promise of Attention--The Gifts of a Wandering Mind" reminding us to take time to breathe....
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.
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation features a graphic sent to us by David Gawlik: "In the end all we have to offer is ourselves." It captures the message of the accompanying meditation below crafted and collated by Rev. Christina Williams.
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 688: In the end all we have to offer is ourselves (6/3/22)
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today June 1 is the birthday of my brother Michael, who died forty years ago at age 36 of a brain tumor. Michael loved life and people, was a joy to be with. My Mom once lamented that he wasn't going to Church and I said, "Mom, Michael is a man right after God's own heart--he would give anyone the shirt off his own back."
Read more: MEDITATION 686: "Ungubani" by Phiwa Langeni (6/1/22)
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation portrays The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth which the Church celebrates today. It reminds me of one of Jean's favorite paintings "One Speaks, One Listens" by Carol Grigg, portraying two women listening to each other, caring for each other. It also echoes in the readings for the day and in my (Ron) reading of John O'Donohue's Beauty with these excerpts on "silence coming to voice" and "care" embodied by Elizabeth and Mary and whomever you are visiting today.