Message from Light of God Ministry • Reverend Mary White
SOMETHING TO CONTEMPLATE
One of the great graces of growing older is that people often start to let go of spurious and self-serving images. Perhaps the reason for a mid-life crisis is that God is trying to help us let go of our attachment to being a doctor, a priest, a mother, or whatever we think we are.
Part of the great conversion experience is precisely the ecstatic recognition that “I am not who I think I am.” It can be a very terrifying thing, even though it is the ultimate liberation. If we have entirely identified with one persona in our 20s, 30s, and 40s, we just can’t imagine what we would be without it—which is exactly the problem.
Excerpt from “The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Chaos, Reorder”
by Richard Rohr
With Love,
Rev. Mary White
YOUNG FAMILY FUN WITH BRENDA PIELLE
Dear Friends:
This weekend we will set our clocks ahead which will give us even more daylight hours to enjoy. The sunshine has been beautiful this week and I hope you have been enjoying the uplifting feeling from this lighter time of year. Best wishes for special times with your children and youth this Spring Break.
This week the Parent Tot video has the reading of a story from “The Barney Storybook Treasury” as well as these songs: The Wheels on the Bus, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Open Them Shut Them, The People on the Bus, and Jesus Loves Me.
The Family Fun video includes a reading about the Great Horned Owl and the Octopus, as well as these songs: To Be Alive, You Are My Sunshine, Over My Head, You’ve Got a Friend, and Tell the World that Jesus Loves You.
I invite you to have fun singing along with me.
Brenda Pielle
Reaching Out to Families
Powell River United Church
Flea Market • MAY 13th, 2023 • 9am-Noon
Looking for interested parties who would like to host a table at our Flea Market. We will need at least 6 tables in order to proceed, and table’s cost $10 each.
For details about table rentals, and bake table, please contact:
Marilynn Davis • Email mhdavis1986@gmail.com
or Phone 604.487.9543
R E A D I N G
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
– Albert Camus
Soup & Bun
Sunday March 19th following worship.
There is a sign-up sheet in Trinity Hall for anyone wanting to make soup for this event.
Poem ~ Being Here
Transcending down into the ground of things is akin to sweeping the leaves that cover a path. There will always be more leaves. And the heart of the journey, the heart of our awakening, is to discover for ourselves that the leaves are not the ground, and that sweeping them aside will reveal a path, and finally, that to fully live, we must take the path and keep sweeping it.
From “The Way Under the Way” by Mark Nepo
The Heart is your pathway home
P R A Y E R
We ask for that quietness of mind and spirit which reflects the stillness in the heart of Love, as a calm sea reflects the shining stars. Enable us to hear the still, small voice of eternity speaking through the sounds of time, that we may dwell in your peace and be one with your love, through the Giver of Life we pray.
Amen
From Zondervan, “The Book of a Thousand Prayers”
Powell River United Church, 6932 Crofton Street, Powell River, BC, V8A 5H4, Canada