Pastor's Letter
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation celebrates Fritz Eichenberg,master artist, wood engraver. You may be familiar with his portrayal of Christ of the Breadlines. We invite you to google and enlarge some of his prints to capture their inspiration. I am particularly enamored by his Joan of Arc (small image below), Francis preaching to the birds, Christ of the Homeless and The Last Supper. His hatred of war prompted him to get his family out of Nazi Germany and his love for "the divine spark in each of us" exemplified his belief in Dostoevsky's words: "The world will be saved by beauty."
Read more: MEDITATION 530: Fritz Eichenberg: Woodcarvings (12/1/21)
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation portrays Yolanda Wisher celebrating the wisdom figures in her life and continuing to revisit them and learn from their life stories and life wisdom.
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 529: "No More Grandma Poems" Yolanda Wisher (11/30/21)
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
On this anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day, our meditation features the theme of her life: that caring for one another is a "duty of delight."
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 528: Dorothy Day: "The Duty of Delight" (11/29/21)
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation portrays Joan Chittister reflecting on Thanksgiving: "Unstinting Gratitude will save us!"
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 526: "Unstinting Gratitude saves us" by Joan Chittister (11/26/21)
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation offers William Stafford's "The Way It Is" with a commentary by Naomi Shihab Nye. Trace Haythorn of The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education called it to my attention. What is the thread for you?
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 516: "The Way It Is" by William Stafford (11/15/21)