August 14, 2024

Loving Working

School start countdown is on! We are preparing for new starts and new adventures! May our entry into this program year be filled with blessings – those we offer and those we receive.

Join us in getting ready around the parish! This coming Saturday, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. come help spread mulch on our Epihpany playground! Many hands – light work! If you have the ability to bring a rake, shovel, or wheelbarrow, that would be helpful to supplement what the parish has!

Come to worship Sunday! Wish our seminarian, Kara, well as she leaves us to return to seminary. Stay after worship on Sunday to hear some parish updates. Stay for fellowship afterward and reconnect with our parish family!

A poem by Naomi Shihab Nye – another look at “Loving Working”

“We clean to give space for Art.”        Micaela Miranda, Freedom Theatre, Palestine

Work was a shining refuge when wind sank its tooth into my mind. Everything we love is going away, drifting – but you could sweep this stretch of floor, this patio or porch, gather white stones in a bucket, rake the patch for future planting, mop the counter with a rag. Lovely wet gray rag, squeeze it hard it does so much. Clear the yard of blowing bits of plastic. The glory in the doing. The breath of the doing. Sometimes the simplest move kept fear from fragmenting into no energy at all, or sorrow from multiplying, or sorrow from being the only person living in the house.

Watermelon Wednesday TONIGHT, 6pm-8pm! The watermelon will be cold and the grill will be hot! Bring somehting for the grill and a side to share. Bring friends for this fun summer activity.

If it rains, it will be canceled and a message will be posted on FB and sent out.

Stay after service on Sunday 8/18/2024 for our Parish mid-year check-in!