The Yellowjacket hovered a few inches away near my leg. It had to be the one.
Pilgrim Congregational Church
United Church of Christ
15 Common St. – PO Box 281, Southborough, MA 01772
United Church of Christ
15 Common St. – PO Box 281, Southborough, MA 01772
Tuesday Blog Posts (Page 7)
We cannot hide our heads in the sand while the horrors of mans inhumanity to mankind burns around us. But we also need to keep our calm, core center in order to be able to respond when we’re needed.
When you come to worship, you don’t just support your own faith: you’re supporting the faith journey of others too!
It’s not time for jubilation. I think it’s time for hard reflection on how we got here.
As someone who wants to be actively anti-racist, it’s incumbent on me to reach out and to educate myself. But it’s NOT incumbent on the black community or any other people of color to make that easy for me, or to package things up in a palatable package.
Whichever parts of Holy Week you partake in, I urge you to drink deeply, both of the joy and of the sorrow.
Does scripture say you can’t have nice things? Or that you shouldn’t be wealthy? No! But it does teach us that what we do with our resources and where we put our focus says much about our relationship with our God and with our world.
If we have power over others, we should never use that power to coerce them into anything they don’t want to do.
I remember being aghast, but I also remember not speaking up and not calling them out.
To Ash Wednesday or not to Ash Wednesday? If that’s your question, please listen and reflect!