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02/17/2024

A beautiful meditation on our Lenten journey.

For you as Ash Wednesday arrives. May the ashes that will lead us into Lent be an invocation, an invitation. So many blessings to you, beloveds, as the new season unfolds.

THE WAY THAT ASHES KNOW
A Blessing for Ash Wednesday

So let the ashes come
as beginning
and not as end;
the first sign
but not the final.
Let them rest upon you
as invocation and invitation,
and then let them take you
the way that ashes know
to go.

May they mark you
with the memory of fire
and of the life
that came before the burning:
the life that rises and returns
and finds its way again.

See what shimmers
amid their darkness,
what endures
within their dust.

See how they draw us
toward the mystery
that will consume
but not destroy,
that will blossom
from the blazing,
that will scorch us
with its joy.

—Jan Richardson

Image: “Ash Wednesday Cross”
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11/24/2022

With all my heart…

“Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it.” - John Wesley

12/27/2020

Church family, this brought to mind Dr. Heffron’s sermon challenge today—to go out and be kind.

Speed of Soul Thought: What I Learned From Mr. Rogers

"You've made this day a special day, by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are."
— Fred Rogers

I have to admit, I totally love Mr. Rogers. He was never afraid to speak directly to a three year old. He didn't worry if people made jokes about is communication style, he just put on his sweater and spoke about love and kindness, community and neighborliness. He wasn't talking to adults, although he didn't mind if we listened. He was speaking to the hearts and ears that needed to hear they were special, they were whole and that the bedrock of their very being was good stuff.
What I learned from Mr. Rogers was to never be embarrassed of being tender. That I could go ahead and speak from the goodness of my heart and the truth of who I am, go ahead and say out loud, "I love you." "There is no one in the whole world like you, and I'm so grateful you are in my life" or "I believe in you" or even, "I'm so sorry."

So today - think of it as a little Mr. Rogers exercise - Tell someone in your life you care. Tell them a specific something you love and appreciate about them. Maybe just a text saying, "This thing you do and are...I so deeply appreciate", or a phone call or email to say,"I know this is hard, but I believe in you." Tell someone in your life today what Mr. Rogers hoped 4 year olds ( and who they became when they grew up) could learn to say to one another and to themselves, " You are special, You are whole and the bedrock of your very being was and is good stuff."