October 16, 2024

In the next several weeks and through the year to come, we will explore the depths or our welcome to each other and the world so we can expand our welcome!

Maybe the most authentic exprience of “welcome” is when we can feel ourselves stand… and others, when they spend time with us, can also feel themselves stand!

May God bless us all in our ministry and work for the healing of the world.

Welcome Home by Parker J. Palmer Alone in the alien, snow-blown woods, moving hard to stay warm in zero weather, I stop on a rise to catch my breath as the setting sun—streaming through bare-boned trees—falls upon my face, fierce and full of life. Breathing easier now, in and out with the earth, I suddenly feel accepted—feel myself stand easy, strong, deep-rooted as the trees, while time and all these troubles disappear. And when (who knows how long?) I trudge on down the trail and find my ancient burdens returning, I stop once more to say No to them— not here, not now, not ever again—reclaiming the welcome home the woods have given me. In Peace, Rev. Dina Rector

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God Loves You. No Exceptions.