Featuring Aaron’s sermon from Sunday, a link to our recent blog post from the Mission, Vision, and Values Team, as well as links to several of our content clearinghouses for all your SJC content needs!
Featuring Rob’s sermon from Sunday and links to all our content!
Featuring Aaron’s sermon from Sunday, and a reflection from Steve Garnaas-Holmes shared out by Anne. Also links to several of our content clearinghouses for all your SJC content needs!
Featuring Rob’s sermon from Sunday, a guest selection from the Seacoast Queer Choir, a request for support for our Garden project, and links to all our content!
The Examen may over time bring clarity for big decisions like a career change, but it can also make us aware of ways to be more present to attend to immediate needs of our families and community now. For me, it also provides loving consolation that God is continually present in all things and that God has patience with me as I struggle to seek God’s direction.
Savasana is the final resting pose at the end of almost every yoga practice. It brings with it images and feelings of calmness, rest, and relaxation….feelings of drifting away, and sometimes even napping….as a well-exercised body and relaxed mind settle into the mat at the end of a practice. It was while in this state of REST and relaxation that I made the decision to write this daily reflection.
My practice is to isolate myself for one hour daily for REST. Usually between 1 o'clock and 2 o'clock. Breathing deeply, I repeat the words
"God in..............Garbage out" until my mind is clear.
Then I can concentrate on some scripture reading and personal prayers.
My earthly father is no longer here to help me navigate when needed but my Heavenly father is still with me. Sometimes now I feel that I am living in fog and cannot see what’s ahead or where I am going. What will life be like in the future? But I put my trust in Him to help me through the fog and keep me off the crashing rocks.
One of my most cherished pieces of liturgy in our faith tradition is in the Eucharistic Prayer's reminder that Jesus "stretched out his arms upon the cross, and offered himself, in obedience to your will, a perfect sacrifice for the whole world." The enormity, the totality, of that stretch, that sacrificial gift strikes awe in my heart every time I hear it.
