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It is rusty around the edges and a little battered, and it is also as holy a relic as I have ever seen.

We need that sense of belonging, of being able to come together as a group, and I am looking forward to many “SIT DOWN MEALS” in the near future!

“I’m starved.” This thought really struck home one day at CT. One of our guests asked for two lunches. Because we don’t ask questions on how many lunches a guest needs, we just gave him two lunches. After he sat in the parking lot and devoured these lunches, he came back and asked for another, commenting that this was the first food he had eaten in three days.

O God, whose days are without end, and whose mercies cannot be numbered, draw near to all who mourn the loss of those near and dear to them. In the midst of their deep sorrow grant them the comfort of your presence. Give them faith to feel the calm assurance of your mercy and to know the blessing of your peace that passes all understanding. In your most holy name we pray. Amen.

Soul, do you feel a tinge of awe?

When I was asked to consider any possible silver linings of the COVID pandemic, I think that what St Johns Church and Gather has achieved together in the last 12 months is a shining example.

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Hope and despair are not opposites. They are cut from the very same cloth, made from the very same material, shaped from the very same circumstances.

The mystery of community is precisely that it embraces all people, whatever their individual differences may be, and allows them to live together as brothers and sisters of Christ and sons and daughters of his heavenly Father.

Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.

Be ignited, or be gone.

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

To 'be perfect,' in the sense that Jesus means it, is to make room for growth, for the changes that bring us to maturity, to ripeness. To mature is to lose adolescent self-consciousness so as to be able to make a gift of oneself, as a parent, as teacher, friend, spouse."

Nature will try anything once.

This is my go-to prayer. When other prayers, hymns, psalms or simple sighs fall flat I come back to this lovely, simple and honest prayer.

At the first Building Committee meeting we struggled to answer the basic question of how to maintain St John’s many outreach and support missions during construction of the new Connector and Fellowship Hall.

be at peace in this moment
and receive without judgment
what is.

I’m sure everyone feels the same way as I do, but I am constantly amazed at what happens when there is a need at St. John’s for our many projects and outreach in the community. There seems to always be the perfect person or group of people with the specific talent, skill sets, passion, and love for our church community to be able to make these miracles happen and get them across the finish line to completion.