Pastor's Letter
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Dear Friends,
We invite you to sojourn with us in contemplation as we enter this Advent Season.
Today's Meditation is a reflection on Our Lady of Guadalupe empowering Juan Diego to give voice to God's care for all. Juan Diego felt unimportant and yet he too had a role to play in giving God's care for God's People a voice and a compassionate presence.
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 Blessed Among Us Our Lady of Guadalupe (12/12/2022)
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Dear Friends,
We invite you to sojourn with us in contemplation this Advent Season.
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton. Today's Meditation gives us a flavor of Merton's contemplation.
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 851: Thomas Merton reflects (12/9/2022)
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Dear Friends,
We invite you to sojourn with us in contemplation this Advent Season.
Today's Meditation invites us through poetry and science to enjoy and ponder The Northern Lights and be "wonder-smitten by reality--the only way worth living." Maria Popova knits together the poetry and the science of the Aurora Borealis.
Read more: MEDITATION 849 The Poetic Science of the Aurora Borealis (12/08/2022)
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Dear Friends,
We invite you to sojourn with us in contemplation this Advent Season.
Today's Meditation features Henri Nouwen reflecting on "Our lives multiply by giving them away."
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 847: Henri Nouwen: "Our Lives Multiply by Giving Them Away" (12/5/2022)
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Dear Friends,
We invite you to sojourn with us in contemplation as we enter this Advent Season.
Today's Meditation features David Bowie reflecting on creativity and offering his advice to Artists. Maria Popova puts him in dialogue with ee cummings, beethoven, john lennon and virginia woolf.
Read more: MEDITATION 845: David Bowie reflects on Creativity and his Advice... (12/02/2022)