Our readings this morning tell us:
Do not rush the coming of the sun.
Do not crave the lengthening of the day.
We are called to pay attention.
Celebrate the darkness. Here and now.
We are called to pay attention.
In recent years, this work of paying attention to the cycles … read more.
In our reading the morning, the poet Joy Harjo says:
“Let’s remember to thank the grower of food
The picker, the driver,
The sun and the rain.
Let’s remember to thank each maker of stitch
And layer of pattern,
The dyer of color
In the immense house of beauty and pain.[1]
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Love is the doctrine of this church.
The liberal church…this church…is often understood to have freedom at its center. Freedom from the rigidity of creeds. Freedom from hierarchical religious authority.
Freedom “from.”
But that is to misunderstand the tradition out of which we come.
And I believe it is … read more.
There’s so much to be thankful for…
Gratitude is our spiritual theme this month and there is so much to be thankful for this morning.
I am looking out at some of your faces…here in our sanctuary…after more than 18thmonths.
Halleluiah. That itself is reason enough for gratitude!
The folks here … read more.
