Message from Our Minister
Light of God Ministry • Reverend Mary White
Something “Vital” to Contemplate
Friends are great but have you ever felt happy in your own company? Content just to be. If so, you’ll know that it’s a pretty wonderful thing. You will spend more time with yourself in this life than anybody else. Ever. And you will never, ever say as many words to another human being than you utter to yourself every day. So, it’s kind of important that you put this relationship first if happiness is your goal. Friends are great, family is important, but you, you are vital. Non-negotiable. Necessary. Make that bond a tight one and you’ll never look back.
Excerpt from “I Wish I Knew” Donna Ashworth
With Love,
Rev. Mary
All Are Welcome with Love
In Person Worship ~ Sundays at 11am
R E A D I N G
Excerpt from “The Advance of Love: Reading the Bible
with An Evolutionary Heart.”
As you grow in spiritual maturity, you will read Psalm 23 and understand that the One who is your Shepherd shows up not only as an external source of authority but as the deepest aspect of your inner being. You will gain the maturity to know when it is time to take yourself to green pastures, you will know where these pastures are located, and you will lay yourself down in them. You will know how to access the “still waters” of Pure Conscious Awareness. You will feel from the inside out when it is time to restore your soul. You will have an inner conviction of what is the path of righteousness—of the right relationship with All That Is. As you grow in spiritual maturity, fear will be less and less of a determinative emotion in your life. You will “fear no evil” because you will know that Love alone is eternal. Your security will be grounded, not in material wealth and insurance policies, but in the deep knowledge that you “dwell in the house of the Lord” (the abiding presence of God), always have and always will.
by Bruce Sanguin
P O E M
Pieces of a Life
Like the remaining stones
of some ancient building
or an old graveyard.
They are the music
of moments that happened
or might happen,
the daily journey
the mind makes,
a devotion of naming,
remembering, noticing.
Grass blades, spiders’ webs,
grasshoppers
and the music of fields;
the feather-like shades
of the colours of a room at dusk
and the way stones hold silence:
nothing is inconsequential
because of the grace of memory,
because of imagination,
because of love.
~ by Joy Mead
I dreamt
I knew.
When I awoke,
I knew not.
P R A Y E R
Creating One, who called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown: Give us faith to go out with a good courage, not knowing where we are going, but only that your hand is leading us, and your love supporting us; to the glory of your name.
~ Eric Milner-White (1884 – 1963) and G. W. Briggs (1875 – 1959)
Powell River United Church, 6932 Crofton Street, Powell River, BC, V8A 5H4, Canada