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 prayer by Howard Thurman, "O God I Need Thee" as we build the Beloved Community. It was send to us by Vince Maraventano.
Read more: MEDITATION: Howard Thurman: "O God I Need Thee" (6/8/2023)
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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 Mary Oliver's poem "I Happened to be Standing" and Eloise's application of it to her life.
Read more: MEDITATION: Mary Oliver: "I Happened to be Standing" (5/31/2023)
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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.
Elizabeth Johnson is one of our favorite theologians. Today's Meditation parses out what it means "to believe in an ecological God: we are kin with all other living beings in a beloved community of creation."
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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 song "To You Who Bow" written by Rory Cooney. It portrays God bending down to us and sharing love ever new. I resonate with his explanation below of how the sang came to be. On this YouTube version he sings with Gary Daigle, Theresa Donohoo and choir about God's love ever new bowing down to us. The words are printed below and echo through our day.
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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 Carrie Newcomer about "Old Photographs: As Cute as We Knew How to Be."
Read more: MEDITATION: Carrie Newcomer: Old Photographs--As Cute as We Knew How to Be (5/22/2023)