This week as we gather in the sanctuary and online for worship, we will worship with the music written or inspired by the Taizé community in France. The songs are brief and are repeated numerous times to offer the opportunity for you to sink into the words and the music, allowing us to focus on our connection with the Spirit of God in an experience of prayer and meditation. 

We bring our full selves to worship. Some of us are feeling celebratory and some of us are in really tough places. Some are straddling both. God is among us to meet with us and to hold us. Gathering together reminds us that regardless of how we feel throughout the week, the truth is that we are held by God and by one another.

I look forward to seeing you Sunday at 11:00 a.m. PDT to join our hearts together in worship.

Peace,

Karin

P.S. We received our Peace and Global Witness offering last week, but if you didn't get yours in, do feel free to give it this week or send it in or give online.  

Please join us immediately following the service for our Coffee Hour

(in-person in Trinity Court or online via Zoom).

“Some stories will die with us if we do not tell them. Imagine the dark energy hidden in our favorite secular and religious texts, packed with treasure we could mine. Imagine the energy locked into our lives, wanting out in the form of stories or letters or family essays, or waiting for some special family or community occasion.”

–Robert Raines, A Time to Live

Photo by Tom Hermans on Unsplash

On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him. Keeping their distance, they called out, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were made clean. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. He prostrated himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus asked, "Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they? Was none of them found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" Then he said to him, "Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well."