Author: Updates

Grace Waves Friends: We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion…  —T.S. Eliot Family Service – This Sunday!  We will have a wonderful Advent Celebration...

Grace Waves Friends: Maturity:  among other things – not to hide one’s strength out of fear and, consequently, live below one’s best.  —Dag Hammarskjold Reading Congregations – Sunday Forum with Seminarian Crystal Larsen: Come learn...

Grace Waves Friends: To be brave is to behave Bravely when your heart is faint. So you can be really brave Only when  you really ain’t. —Piet Hein “Welcoming the Stranger” – Thanksgiving Eve...

Grace Waves Friends: Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few  small stones; just pay attention, then patch  a few words together...

Grace Waves Friends: In love no action is lost that was ever performed for Love’s sake; Love always repays, late or soon; Love is always the reward of love. —Hadewijch Our Family Service is...

Grace Waves Friends: You are cordially invited to Xanthia and Brock’s Wedding this Saturday at 3:00 pm.  To fall in love in a community that has been so nourishing to our faith in one another, honors us...

Grace Waves Friends: This Sunday we celebrate All Saints Day honoring those saints who have loved us and gone before us. From Rilke’s “Duino Eliegies” Of course, it is strange to inhabit the earth...

Grace Waves Friends: The world is for God.  It is not an illusion or an accident or a place of trial for people.  It is a work of art, and it is for God...

Grace Waves Friends: The power of intercessory prayer surpasses every work we might undertake for God’s glory, since it joins our desire for the world’s healing to the mercy of the Holy Spirit.  Intercession...

Grace Waves Friends: The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves...