We had a wonderful Agape Feast last Sunday. My deepest thanks goes out to members of the Ministerial Search Team who planned and led the event and to everyone who participated in the discussion. To one and all, Thank You!
Thinking about last Sunday, looking ahead to Memorial Day this next Sunday, and reflecting on the storm that passed through on Sunday evening, I found myself reading the following meditation:
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore we are saved by love.
–Reinhold Niebuhr, 1951
In our worship on May 26th we will take time to pay tribute to those who died on battle fields in wars past and present, and recall the words of President Kennedy who warned, “If mankind [sic] does not put an end to war, war will put an end to mankind.”
Peace, David Hansen