Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Give thanks for mountains. We are often called to ‘high places.’ In some cultures, we discuss ‘thin places’ that are close to heaven. In the Celtic tradition, heaven is only six feet away in memorable geographic locations such as certain islands or mountains, which hold sacred significance in multiple faith traditions. Walk out[…]
Today, give thanks for trees. Trees, rooted in the earth, rise up to reach for the heavens. They embrace the movement of the wind, become bridges between the land and sky, earth and heaven. Trees of different species signal the changing seasons. Many of them blaze with color, and grow bare as the world[…]
TONIGHT @ 5pm: Friday, Nov 8Two Week Series: Morality & Ethics This Week: MORALITY by Tony DeLucaplus Scriptures on this Theme C3: COCKTAILS & CHRISTIAN CONVERSATIONS 5pm • Zoom link required. Option: Call in via touch-tone phone. Zoom info required. Contact church at jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org by 4pm on Friday in order to receive information to participate.[…]
As we enter the weekend, let us appreciate roads and trails. Such connectors offer another aspect of journeys. They inolve ‘places between’ that encompass the routes we travel. On such pathways, transformation occurs. Our oldest recorded stories and most sacred texts narrate human migrations that celebrate adventures and experiences. On the trail, we cause[…]
Let us give thanks for windows and doors. For physical thresholds that mark our arrivals and departures, our comings and goings. Sometimes they’re more than a knob and a hinge: they’re portals of transition. They demarcate the places we begin or end, they designate both routine movements and life-altering journeys. At such portals, we leave[…]
