In this world, a species can only thrive when everything else around it thrives, too.

The work doesn’t end. We don’t wake up one day having mastered how to do this. We practice. We make mistakes. We learn. We do better.

Make me an instrument of your peace.

Where humans rail for fairness, for people deserving what they get or don’t get, God simply gives what is needed, no questions asked.

The Rev. Laurel Hart, Deacon Scripture: Matthew 20:1-16 Give thanks to the Lord and call upon his name make known his deeds among the...

We are each fragile, each susceptible, each human. And we can remember that those are the things that connect us, to God and to each other.

What we do in this community, how we practice loving and choosing each other again and again, reverberates through our lives.

When we seek only for our own life, our own well being, our own comfort, our own safety, we lose our life in Christ.

I am so grateful for each of you and the gifts you bring and all the ways we continue to love each other through this difficult time.

The Rev. Laurel Hart, Deacon Scripture: Matthew 15:10-28 Oh, how good and pleasant it is, when brethren live together in unity! When...

We are not alone. It is Jesus who calls us into the storm, and it will be Jesus, through us, who calms the storm.

Scarcity is such an unnecessary burden. In reality, our God created for us a world of abundance

The parables describe how the kingdom of heaven emerges from something almost invisible to the eye and grows exponentially.

All those Sundays of gathering to worship in this building have prepared us for such a time as now.

The burden Jesus asks us to take on is to find our center in him, to find both our readiness and rest in his gospel. Always. No matter what.

Welcome isn't about letting everyone in no matter what. It isn't about being together no matter what. It's about safety and respect.

“God, I need help with me” Amen. I probably should add the word “now” to this phase. “God, I need help with me, NOW.” Amen.

I want to invite us to tell our truth, to feel in our own gut the power and peace of sacred presence.

We know how to transform our stories so that we ourselves can be transformed.

The Spirit doesn’t call us to comfort. She calls us to God’s love and justice.