Category: Pastor’s Weekly Message

Friends: “The virtues of suffering: Due to the shock suffering causes us, our arrogance falls away – we see life more clearly; Suffering also gives rise to compassion for all others who are suffering;...

Friends: Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval...

Friends: “They tried to bury us.  They forgot we are seeds.”  Mexican Proverb from Pr. Lucy’s sermon “Sweet Little Jesus Boy……we didn’t know who you was.”  Spiritual sung last Sunday.   ** In need...

Grace Waves Friends: “Where the Church is Alive there is always Surprise!” “Only in humans has the evolution of the creation reached the point where reality encounters itself in decision and choice.  Outside of...

Grace Waves Friends: “The day will come when, after harnessing  the ether, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love.  And, on that day, for the second...

Friends: “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”  Gandhi  

Grace Waves Once upon a time I took in Mystery as a sensation best left unexamined.  Now I experience it as welcomed.  I’m strangely comforted when I hear from scientists that human beings are...

Grace Waves Friends: “Tov” is the Hebrew word usually translated as ‘good’ but it’s core meaning is actually ‘life generating’.  Enjoy this definition when you read the Creation Story or pray/meditate on the Creation Mantra you received Sunday.  This...

Grace Waves Friends: “Impending Resurrection:  We pay more attention to dying than to death.  We’re more concerned to get over the act of dying than to overcome death.  Socrates mastered the art of dying;...

Grace Waves Friends: Prayer for Holy Week: Just as your Final Week begins – everything collides together: The glib attitudes of ‘life on the surface’ with your moment of sublime submission. You are afraid, anxious, wary...