May 23: Pentecost Sunday
Messages: Wind and Fire
Reflections on mountain, wind, fire, quake and silence: themes from 1 Kings.
Holiness, not in the fire, wind or quake, but in the silence that comes after: It is about sweeping in when we are too comfortable and moving us out of those places we cling to when we fear the unknowns and try to avoid the pain and injustice around us. It is about empowering us […]
Inspired by St Francis, plus hope responding to shootings & earthquakes & volcanoes & hurricanes & fires
Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures — Excerpt from Canticle of the Sun by St Francis of Assisi “Hope” is the thing with feathers – (314) — Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops […]
Sermon: On Fire
JCC 060417 – On Fire from architect on Vimeo.
Meditations: immersing ourselves in wild creative energy of life & Spirit
As Kingfishers Catch Fire — Gerard Manley Hopkins ~~ As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that […]