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 features Richard Rohr reflecting on being Pilgrims, not Tourists. It reminds me of when I worked as a hospice chaplain, one of our Hospice Volunteers who did everything for patients, from driving them to doctor's appointments or shopping to fixing simple things around their home or sitting and visiting as they shared their journeys.
Read more: MEDITATION: Richard Rohr: Pilgrims, not Tourists (3/7/2023)
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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 features a reflection by Joyce Rupp: "Most People are Pretty Decent."
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,
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 features Carrie Newcomer offering her confessions of a doer. I particularly enjoyed Parker Palmer saying the soul is shy and we have to give space for it to come out and be noursihed and communed with.
Read more: MEDITATION: Carrie Newcomer: Confessions of a Doer (2/28/2023)
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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 celebrates the life and work of Paul Farmer. His observation that "The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the 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.
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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.
On this Presidents Day we remember in today's Meditation the words of Abraham Lincoln charging the people of his day to strive to live and vote in such a way that the government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. We invite you to continue this mission with us today--in Washington, Ukraine, Taiwan, Iran--all around the world.
Read more: MEDITATION: Abraham Lincoln: "The Gettysburg Address" (2/20/2023)