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Church, includes a calendar for the month, a message from the minister, and
sometimes articles about groups that use the building, or interesting bits of
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From the latest
issue:
Minister’s
Notes:
Season of Busyness – Just when we
thought…
Rev. Jean Siegfried Darling
Here we are,
halfway through “meteoric winter” as Tom Shilling calls it;
we’ve battened our hatches, pulled tight the shutters;
we’re well-muffled and
mittened, anti-frozen and insulated…
We survived the holidays, with fewer gifts perhaps, but more cheer,
more fellowship and good food with friends and family.
I feel a
little like the groundhog, whose day is coming soon – cautiously poking my
head out to see how things are. We’ve
been ensconced here in our church-fortress, celebrating the winter season with
Advent and our annual Christmas pageant (with children this year!) and the
Winter Solstice and Kwanzaa.
We
celebrated Martin Luther King Day with guest preacher from the UU seminary,
Qiyamah Rahman, and shared a quite amazing meal with our Ghanaian neighbors
from the fifth floor church. We
traded stories of how we came to be here – here in
America
, or here in this church. This
shared meal was so inspiring that someone suggested we do a joint religious
service the next time we get together.
We are like
the trees here in our Northern clime, which may look bare and dead-looking on
the outside, but the sap is stirring, roots growing, preparing for the time of
buds swelling and flowers and greenery bursting forth.
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