September 3, 2025
Program Year BEGINS!
On Sunday, we get to come together for worship, festive eats, and joyful play! What side will you share at the picnic?
This is an exciting time in the life of any parish, and a particularly exciting time for us here at Epiphany! Our fall ministries and activities are beginning! Our children, our youthm and even our adults, are taking new steps: new schools, new grades, new ministries.
We look forward to being together as September slides into October; and as the leaves change color and we find ourselves tumbling like the leaves into November, a time when gratitude is heightened. And as the days continue to shorten, we get a chance to welcome the miracle of our incarnational faith.
We can go deeper, connecting with God through each other and, with God’s help, learn more about this multi-dimensional verb: love. We can know better Jesus, the perfect embodiment of love in action; the love that sparked with our first breath and that we promised ourselves to put into action.
Our way forward together has been unfolding, and with the start of this program year, it presses forward with more precision. So, I offer, by the words of Pixie Lighthorse, a prayer for:
Honoring Rights of Passage
We are spilling over with gratitude today for divine support and presence in our lives. We need your energy to move through our transitions. We need creativity and motivation to find the healers who can help us honor ourselves when we change.
Help us cherish the inevitable changes we face. Guide us in ceremony and celebration when our time comes. Teach us to honor the young ones when their bodies and minds shift and mature. Show us how to midwife the elders and the sick across the bridge and into the next dimension.
Hold us close to you when we must leave old ways behind in order to embrace what is next for us. Remind us that change is not to be feared but cradled in recognition.
Channel our new energies into the causes that serve the highest purpose for all. Teach us how to understand that we are all the same in the way that we continue to develop, up and away, like magical beanstalks. Help us transmute what falls away from our strong stems, in order to mulch and protect what is trying to grow from our roots up into us.
Break down the dams of resistance that obstruct the steady current between our minds, spirits, and You. Help us surrender and wonder during our transformations.
Help us clear the way for beauty, in all its forms, to stream through us. Root us firmly in the soul-soil as our branches reach high for home in the Star Nation. Lay us down on the Great Mother, under your sparkling blankets and the comfort of the moon, to receive your transmissions.
Surround us in your warmth and light, and usher us into our new stages as precious children of Earth, who never stop growing, and do so because you inspire us to rise.
