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Dear friends,
I invite you all to gather with us this Sunday for a time of nourishment and reflection on coming home. October has always been my favorite month- a time of gathering in, coziness, harvest, and preparation for the cold months to come. I am still settling into my new home here in Sacramento, and in the few chilly days we have had so far I’ve burrowed into blankets with cups of tea.
The past few weeks have been so, so heavy, and I struggle with the news and holding the grief of it all. The good news is, we do not have to do any of it alone. These words, from Rev. Theresa Ninán Soto, have been a balm to me, and I hope they are to you as well.
We Hold Hope Close
In this community, we hold hope close. We don’t
always know what comes next, but that cannot dissuade us.
We don’t always know just what to do, but that will not mean
that we are lost in the wilderness. We rely on the certainty
beneath, the foundation of our values and ethics. We
are the people who return to love like a North Star and to
the truth that we are greater together than we are alone.
Our hope does not live in some glimmer of an indistinct future.
Rather, we know the way to the world of which we dream,
and by covenant and the movement forward of one right action
and the next, we know that one day we will arrive at home.
From "Spilling the Light"
May we “know the way to the world of which we dream” and gather in love,
Rosemary
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