Hello Beloved!

Well, winter finally found where we were hiding, yes? Ok, you can stay, Winter. Only for a few weeks though, you hear? Just till the novelty wears off.

We are deep into Epiphany now, the time of Jesus’s initation into public ministry, and his hazing, I mean calling, of the disciples. I’ll be preaching Sunday, on the calling of the first four who would grow to be twelve, and how you and I are implicated. Matthew is our able liturgist. Jeff Mansfield will be worshipping with our beloved kids, downstairs!

After worship, we will gather for our 136th Annual Meeting as a beloved community. We will hear a presentation about the proposed capital campaign, review and vote on a budget for the new year, and look ahead to what’s coming. It all sounds terribly dry, but in practice it is the most remarkable thing, to watch all these people who have nothing in common but Jesus Christ hash out how to keep calling an enterprise like our church into being and thriving. It’s democracy! Without PACs and subterfuge and namecalling and abuses of power and miscarriages of justice! I’m thinking of inviting the presidential candidates to show them how it should be done, with kindness and deep mutual respect, and lots and lots of hope and idealism.

Beloved, I missed you! and can’t wait to see you.

Christlove

Molly