Pastor's Letter
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Dear Friends,
As we build the Beloved Community, we pray for you every day that you might continue to bring it about in your little corner of the world.
Today's Meditation is a reflection by Henri Nouwen on our approach to prayer. He says we don't have to give God a seminar or come with inspiring thoughts.
Read more: MEDITATION: Henri Nouwen: Let Yourself be Useless (5/16/2023)
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Dear Friends,
Happy Easter!
As we build the Beloved Community, we pray for you every day that you might continue to bring it about in your little corner of the world.
Today's Meditation is a reflection by Joan Chittister on What Easter is Really About: letting the light shine through us by continuing to bring care and food and phone call to those who need it.
Read more: MEDITATION: Joan Chittister: What Easter is really all about (4/11/2023)
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Dear Friends,
Happy Easter!
As we build the Beloved Community, we pray for you every day that you might continue to bring it about in your little corner of the world.
Today's Meditation is a celebration of the life and spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, one of the people who has most shaped my way of being in the world. His Divine Milieu, seeing and meeting God everywhere and His Mass on the Universe, seeing all of creation as ways of communing with God inform my spirituality. Included here below are three of his prayers.
Read more: MEDITATION: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Mystic and Scientist (4/10/2023)
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Dear Friends,
As we build the Beloved Community, we pray for you every day that you might continue to bring it about in your little corner of the world.
Today's Meditation is a reflection by Joan Chittister on what happens when a loved one dies. Don't miss Maya Angelou and Dietrich Bonhoeffer below Joan's letter and the poem "Ride a Wild Horse" and our Holy Happenings as The Spirit of Life Community.
Read more: MEDITATION: Joan Chittister: When a Loved One Dies (4/5/2023)
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Dear Friends,
As we build the Beloved Community, we pray for you every day that you might continue to bring it about in your little corner of the world.
Today's Meditation unites us in solidarity with an event happening today in Jerusalem: an Abrahamic Reunion for Peace: Diversity, Acceptance, Harmony,Love, Connection, Knowledge and Joy. It was sent to us by Hermione Garland. There is also a link to a You Tube recording of a prayer service held recently participated in by members of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions.