Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to community and creation!
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life. ― Rumi Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a […]
This week we celebrate the renewal of Ray & Arden’s Wedding Vows during the year of their 60th anniversary: such vows are bound as a covenant made in the sight and presence of holy love (agape). This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace,To seek the truth in love, And to help one […]
Peace begins inside us, then in our relationships, our communities, and our world. All of it relies on connection to something greater than ourselves: Godself. If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in […]
Themes from Joshua 3:14-17 and Matthew 23:11-12. The crossing from wasteland to abundance, from brokenness to blessing … gratitude arises from the chance to serve others. Blessing of Enough — Jan Richardson I know how small this blessing seems; just a morsel that hardly matches the sharp hunger you carry inside you. But trust me […]
Burden — Judith McCombs I am carrying the bowl where she fed, bitter herbs, salt, honey, the taste of her life. I am carrying the cloth where she lay, her dark hair veining the white, imprint & pain washed away, the binding, the seams folded shut. I am carrying what is left, her voice in […]
