Dear Friends,
It was good to gather again on Sunday night to share some soup and table conversation as we head into the most tender part of our Lenten journey: Holy Week. We’ll have our final Lenten Soup Supper this Sunday at 6PM. I hope you will join us even if it is for the first time.
Last Sunday we talked about the shadows that seem to be getting longer in the world just as they are in the scriptures. In our simple hour, we used our bodies as instruments of peace to do what we could to breathe compassion and healing love where it was needed most—in ourselves and in the world. Of course, we remembered the trauma of our sisters and brothers in Atlanta. Now, with grief, we must add Boulder, Colorado, to our prayers.
What could you do to today with what Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called the “fierce urgency of now” to offer love that is stronger than death? You might start with lighting a candle and centering yourself in God’s love. You could do that here. You could also share your voice and resources with organizations who are doing the good work of justice and healing. Amplify you love. See the link below for a starting place where you might make a donation or take an action.
This Sunday night, we’ll break bread, talk, and look at the arc of Holy Week beginning with Palm Sunday. Hope to see you at 6PM. Look for the link in the Highlights. (The soup recipes and readings in the Lenten devotional have been wonderful!)
Then we invite you to gather for Good Friday worship on April 2 at 7PM. (Look for the link in the Highlights.) It will be a sacred evening of prayer, readings, song, candlelight, and tolling of the bells, as we begin our wait for Easter morning.
As you walk and wait this week, here are some lovely words from the Rev. William Slone Coffin. They are often shared in benedictions. May they bless you and keep you:
"May God give you grace never to sell yourself short,
To risk something big for something good,
And grace to remember that the world is too dangerous for anything but truth,
And too small for anything but Love”
Rev. Karyn Frazier
