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06/22/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

My sister, Lorinda, was seven years old. I was eight. We were in a park, crossing a grassy field, my sister between mom and dad, holding their hands. I was off on my own, looking for treasure but lost in thought. Lorinda found the treasure, a scattering of coins in the grass. Lorinda and my parents searched about for buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, silver quarters and half-dollars. I stood back, disappointed. They counted. They divided the coins. My sister, her hands too small for the coins she carried, walked to where I stood and gave me half the treasure.

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

06/15/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

I cannot recall just how it came about, but I had befriended a man who led a troubled life. He never accounted himself worthy, only barely got by. Then, one day, the particulars lost to time, the man saw a child standing before him. And the child spoke to the man. Wise words, so the man told me, simple words, each word manifestly true. The child turned and was gone, but the words were all that was required to lift the man from the nothingness of his doldrums into a new way of being. He never saw the child again.

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

06/14/2026

We welcome you to join us for our Taizé service this evening at 7pm with a guided meditation instruction beginning at 6:45. Begin your week with peaceful song, silent meditation and readings to fill your soul. Classical guitarist Adam Keeler provides our musical accompaniment.

06/08/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

I made a mistake. Nothing serious, and no harm done. No one seemed to notice, but my pride took a hit. I mentioned my blunder to one man and he said, “Pshaw! Don’t worry! That’s nothin’!” When I am not making a mess of things, I’ve been reading through Thomas Merton’s Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.* One of the many, small grace notes therein concerns one’s conversion to Christ … that our embrace of Christ’s will “… is not merely the conversion from bad habits to good habits, but nova creatura, becoming a totally new [person] in Christ, and in the Spirit.”

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

*[Image Doubleday,1965]

06/01/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

This is my wish for the days that remain … and perhaps yours, if you would have it so … the words of William Henry Channing, reformer and clergyman, 1810-1884: “To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common -- this is my symphony.”

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

05/25/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

My mother, Dorothy Dell Dennison, and her sister Lucy, were trained artists. My mother was a 1930 graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. That year, they packed their easels and supplies and drove deep into Mexico. They sketched and painted landscapes in the wilds, and returned with their old Nash packed with paintings. I later learned that they had taken with them an ancient Maltby Henley pistol, patented in 1888. I could not but ask, whatever was that for? My mother shrugged … a tool of the artist’s trade … when walking the desert or sleeping in the car.

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

05/18/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

Another birthday is in my rearview mirror. Mercifully, my good health remains. Getting elderly has its rewards, though I’ve not had anyone hold the door for me. Lately, I have had renewed recollections of Jesus’ words … words long known to me though not appreciated: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you … You cannot serve both God and money … Pray for your enemies …” Words return to me as I walk down the street … as I do chores … Jesus living and working among us … in our midst … the Jesus of every day … the simple graces … loving us always.

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

05/16/2026

We welcome you to join us for our Taizé service tomorrow evening at 7pm with a guided meditation instruction beginning at 6:45. Begin your week with peaceful song, silent meditation and readings to fill your soul. Classical guitarist Adam Keeler provides our musical accompaniment.

05/11/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

My father had sailed the coast of Maine and the islands of the Caribbean. He knew about the sea. When I was a boy, he took me to a rustic and rundown ship museum somewhere along the coast of Maine. There were perhaps fifty paintings of ships under sail. Some ships sailed stormy seas, the captain standing the foredeck, fierce wind, cresting waves. My father told me that these paintings were intended for the captains who had braved the fearsome seas. The paintings of cargo-laden ships, plying calm waters? Those were painted for the merchants who owned the ships.

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

05/04/2026

=== Deacon's Dismissal ===

John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath [Penguin Edition, p.419] … In the 1930’s, the Joad Family has been forced out of Depression-era Oklahoma only to find themselves destitute and desperate in rural California. Tom Joad has been in prison and must now make his way alone. His parting words to his mother:

“Maybe … a fella ain’t got a soul of his own, but on’y a piece of a big one … I’ll be all aroun’ in the dark. I’ll be ever’where — wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there … I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’ — I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry an’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build — why, I’ll be there.”

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh

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