Message from Light of God Ministry • Reverend Mary White
Words to Consider….
Coming to terms with accepting ourselves with loving compassion is proof that aging is such a blessing. We spend too much of our younger years caught up in comparing who we are with others. We strive to be better at parenting, sports, gardening, singing, baking, fishing, making money, etc. So much time is wasted on competing with friends and neighbours that we overlook our gifts and fail to bring our creative spiritual being to the fore. We find ourselves without an authentic, fully lived life. Letting go of life learned patterns is not always easy but we can start with that first step toward accepting the self. In all that we are gifted with and all that we do, we are good enough. Thank God for the beauty of diversity.
With Love
Rev. Mary White
In-Person Sunday Worship Each Sunday at 11am • All Are Welcome with Love
2021 Annual General Meeting • Sunday May 15th, 11am
The PR United Church Annual Report 2021 is now available for your review CLICK HERE. Printed copies are available in the church.
This report reflects a summary of our church’s ministry over the 2021 year. It will be considered for approval at the Annual Meeting, scheduled for Sunday, May 15, 2022 in conjunction with the 11:00 am worship service.
R E A D I N G
Sited in “Quiet” by Susan Cain
A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than would a race in which everyone was Vincent van Gogh. I prefer to think that the planet needs athletes, philosophers, sex symbols, painters, scientists; it needs the warm-hearted, the hard-hearted, the cold-hearted, and the weak-hearted. It needs those who can devote their lives to studying how many droplets of water are secreted by the salivary glands of dogs under which circumstances, and it needs those who can capture the passing impression of cherry blossoms in a fourteen- syllable poem or devote twenty-five pages to the dissection of a small boy’s feelings as he lies in bed in the dark waiting for his mother to kiss him goodnight.… Indeed, the presence of outstanding strengths presupposes that energy needed in other areas has been channelled away from them.
—Allen Shawn
For the People
Our congregation has donated $4,150 in support of the people of the Ukraine. Pretty amazing!
Poem: What We Are To Be
by Thom Shuman, from his book “Piano Man”
To those whose hair has risen
on the back of their hearts,
we are to broadcast (gracefully modified)
seeds of hope;
to everyone whose knees are swollen
and wobbly from standing at two jobs,
we are to be braces;
to all whose hands
are palsied by poverty,
we are to be gloves
woven from skeins of food,
warmth, shelter. to anyone
whose feet are blistered
from walking the burning
bricks of foolishness,
we are to be shoes
which will easily slip on
for the Way.
Flea Market and Fundraising Event • Saturday May 14th • 9am to 3pm
Please contact Marilynn at mhdavis1986@gmail.com or 604-487-9543 if you have any questions.
Set Up 1pm to 5pm • Friday May 13th
Donations of plants for Flea Market can be dropped off at the church on May 13th during office hours (10am - 2pm).
Please bring any donations of baked goods, wrapped appropriately and priced on the morning of May 14th.
Volunteers for take down and clean up are appreciated.
PRUC Online Worship Service
Please Join us this Sunday, May 15th
Dance your way to success.
P R A Y E R
Creating Spirit
Let light enfold me that my inward eye may clearly see the path that lies ahead. Let my mind be opened up that I may recognise the signposts along the way. Grant me the wisdom that comes from understanding the true from the false. And guide my steps, so that should I falter or stumble, tripped by former beliefs that blind me still, I may go forward with courage, and with the determination which persistence brings. Let me be embraced with the love by which the whole creation is moved, the very essence with which all things are held together, dependent yet independent, whole yet individuated, in which all are my relatives.
Amen
Anon. (sited in “A Book Of Blessings” by Ruth Burgess)
Powell River United Church, 6932 Crofton Street, Powell River, BC, V8A 5H4, Canada