Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Worship Service Message JCC 112220 Gratitude for Next Chances from architect on Vimeo. PRAYER of THANKSGIVING by Howard Thurman Note: Thanks to Maren Tirabassi for posting this on her Facebook page. We shared it and reflected on it during two worship services. Prayer of Thanksgiving by Howard Thurman, 1899–1981 Today, I make my Sacrament of[…]
Give thanks for what is old. Appreciate what has matured and seasoned. Take notice of lives and perspectives made venerable through insight and experience. Focus on an object, an artifact, whose purpose has become obscure or obsolete, but which is beautiful for its own sake, as a work of engineering and art. Appreciate an antique[…]
SUNDAY INTERFAITH GATHERING CHOIR PRACTICE 8am • Pavilion (behind Whitney Community Center) & Zoom link required.Gather for poetry & literature, prayer, conversation. VIRTUAL CHOIR PRACTICE 9am • Zoom link required VIRTUAL & IN-PERSON SUNDAY WORSHIP with Gratitude Focus10:30am • Zoom link required.Join us for worship with music, scripture, prayer and reflection. Stay for virtual coffee[…]
Appreciate what rises. What goes up. What climbs. The sun breaks over the horizon as it starts the day. People, in their efforts to achieve things, often rise. Sometimes the ascent is its own journey, sometimes it’s the path that leads to a goal or destination. Sap rises. Birds and plans take off, balloons go[…]
Give thanks for what falls. We crush underfoot the acorns that land in our paths, or kick them aside as fodder for wild creatures. We press bruised apples, shaken from their limbs, into cider. We pause in wonder at the rushing torrents that cascade as waterfalls, dropping dramatically, tumultuously, to the river below. Our own[…]
