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Chartered in 1904, the First Presbyterian Church in Trout Lake, WA still stands as built by pioneers in 1906. Worship 10 AM Sun

Thanks to a provocative book by Christine D. Pohl, Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011), a truer vision of what “Church” was meant to do and be has been revived in my mind and heart. The first quarter of Christine’s book reminds us of the importance of gratitude. I have been doing a lot of thinking about gratitude, recently. More than just your average “thank you” in polite conversation, but something deeper, wherein a recognition that God’s spirit dwells in the person with whom I am speaking; and for whatever reason s/he has been moved to offer something to me, to which I reply, “thank you.”

Wouldn’t it be something if all of us could began to grow more in an awareness that God’s Spirit is indeed imbuing all whom we meet, indeed all of God’s good green earth. What kinds of ripple affects would we then be able to make for good all around us? What if God’s Spirit has been trying to move all of us into closer proximity with gratitude, with thankfulness, with love all along? “God is Love,” writes the Apostle John. Wouldn’t it be something if, in recognizing the movement of God’s Spirit within and among us, we might discover love anew?

To the pioneer families of Trout Lake in 1904, 1905 and 1906, thank you for your love of God and for your desire to build a place designed for worship, gratitude/thankfulness, truth-living and promise-making, and community hospitality. For those of your descendants still in the valley today, may you continue to be blessed, following in the ways of your fathers and mothers in proclaiming and living the faith which they professed and shared.

Sincerely,

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