All around us the season seems to reach a standstill -- a point of repose. READING ~ “Can You Imagine” by Mary Oliver in Long Life: Essays and Other…
Sermons
When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. ~…
The message of Hanukkah is to kindle the first light: to care, to be concerned, and to be uplifting to others. In the end, a little bit of light has…
As drops of rain that find each other and build to become a track, a rivulet, a stream, a river, a sea, so are we drawn together; so are we…
"When strangers sojourn with you in your land, you shall do them no wrong, the strangers who sojourn with you shall be to you as natives among you, and you…
“Clearly, the purpose of wealth is not security. The purpose of wealth is reckless generosity.” Joan Chittister, OSB and Archbishop Rowan Williams READING ~ Michael Durall, selections from The Almost…
READING Thoughts about privilege Peggy McIntosh~ I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. Allan G. Johnson (via…
No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face. John Donne READING Autumn Leaves – The Beauty of Change ~ Janet Hagerman I…
“Renew us for a year that is good and sweet.” Rosh Hashanah Liturgy READING About forgiveness from the Jewish Tradition excerpted from the Portal On Jewish Prayer and in Keeping…
READING Christian Scripture, Gospel of Matthew 11:28-29 Matthew 11:28-29 Revised Standard Version (RSV) 28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.…
