Pastor's Letter
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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)
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Dear Friends,
We hope that you are safe and well.
Today's Meditation is a reflection by Ann Kansfield on "Praying All the Time: Let the tiny prayers, the big messy prayers, the silent yearning prayers and the in-action prayers be enough, God--for you and for me." And God said, "Amen--Let it be so!"
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: "Praying All the Time" by Ann Kansfield (11/12/21)