As we celebrate All Saints’ and All Souls our scripture invites us to consider how our story is important; the story of God’s grace and presence and how God’s presence brings hope. Interestingly, we are invited to remember that God is intimately connected to us and all creation, so much so that God came among […]
As we gathered for worship we offered prayers for healing and listened to stories about God’s interaction and response to humans who are “full of themselves”. God responded to Job, not question for question, but asked Job to remember the details of the everyday are beyond Job’s comprehension, so the monumental will often make less […]
Our worship was filled with readings about wisdom and how a wise person depends on God for true wisdom. We heard the description of the “perfect wife” (helper) and the traits which build up society. We also heard James continue to stress action and faith – you can’t have one without the other. The challenge […]
The topic of story and how our story is important follows in our scripture today. And yet, this didn’t preclude a story-teller’s distraction: concrete. It was interesting to reflect on our story as the stuff that binds the disparate parts of our Parish and our world together. While it would be easy to talk about […]
Scripture talked to us about abiding, loving, and being present for the bidding of God in community. We were reminded that God’s love doesn’t see boundaries nor does it fit our paradigm. We heard about God’s love being active, expansive, relational, and faithful; all of these, even when we don’t feel faithful, relational, expansive, or […]
Today, we continued our Lenten journey. The principle lessons to take away from the readings are “the temptation of Christ” – an odd but fitting lesson and general temptation of creation. We are invited in Lent to pause and ask (1) in what do we hope? (2) What prevents us from finding or recognizing our […]
In worship we closed our Advent journey with a refreshing of the promises given by God to God’s chosen people. God has promised, since before Abraham, through the sin-filled life of David, to the life of Blessed Mary, and now to our age. God’s promises include being able to do what we doubt as possible […]
We continued our journey in Advent and focused on our preparation and the work of the messenger. Isaiah helped remind us of the hope he offered to his generation – restoration after exile and return to being the chosen people of God. Yet we heard the story of John (the Baptist) and his offering of […]
In worship today we heard the story from the Prophet about God who will provide comfort in the midst of our battles. God is there with us and is strong enough to defeat our foes at the same time God is able to comfort the least in creation. We looked at how the good news […]
Worth reflecting that our lessons from worship. A key theme of the readings today was hope based on God’s providence, in good times and in challenges. We are called to remember that God’s timing is not human’s timing (thankfully). We also heard about being prepared and having hope, often knowing we are moving forward with […]