Message from Light of God Ministry • Reverend Mary White
SOMETHING TO CONTEMPLATE
No matter how many “right things” I do, darkness will still come unannounced and uninvited because it is an essential part of personal growth and spiritual transformation. Without some darkness, I cannot become fully the person I am meant to be.
No matter how thick the darkness, some unexpected light always shows itself. This reality convinces me I can live through dark experiences and not be completely overcome.
Excerpt from “Little Pieces of Light: Darkness and Personal Growth”
by Joyce Rupp, OSM
With Love,
Rev. Mary
All Are Welcome with Love
In Person Worship ~ Sundays at 11am
YOUNG FAMILY FUN WITH BRENDA PIELLE
R E A D I N G
Shaped by the Oneness
Life can be harsh and beautiful by turns. Often, it seems unfair. Why can’t the beautiful openings last longer? Over the years, I’ve learned that this movement from fullness to bareness and back is the inhalation and exhalation of the Universe. The rhythm is what keeps us alive. It keeps us growing. Once we open our heart, the thousand feelings come at us non-stop, the endless waves of a Mysterious Unity. How they wash over us and through us transforms us.
Excerpt from “The Half-Life of Angels” by Mark Nepo
P O E M
Pain and Glow
We have shed many skins,
always working toward
some uncovered state:
below opinion,
below expectation, even below
the exhilaration of a dream.
All to accept that shedding
is a way of life.
Going out builds up.
Going in takes off.
And we go on.
Despite the pain of taking off,
we want the glow of being to
last a bit longer. And we go on.
Now I see that this is how the
Universe renews itself: by building
up and taking off. There is
no other way. Pain and Glow.
And we go on. Like a crab
inching from its shell. Like
a bird molting its feathers.
Like an enduring self leaving
everyone’s judgments
on the side of the road.
– Mark Nepo
From “The Way Under the Way” by Mark Nepo
Free Event at the Patricia Theatre on Easter Monday:
Time: 2pm to about 3pm on Easter Monday
Where: Patricia Theatre
Arthur Arnold, Cello
Dr. Moira Hopfe-Ostensen
Arthur and Moira are also doing this concert both on the Island and in Vancouver next week and charging $60 in both cities.
This event is being offered for free in Powell River.
The Light of God illumines all creation and darkness
P R A Y E R
God of the open garden, we have found you and long to hold you fast. But you refuse our clinging need, eluding the love that would bind and possess you, sending us out beyond the bounds of our feeble knowing. Rapt in our joy and desire, we cannot interpret you: you have gone from us again, moving into morning, moving into light.
In your great love, wait for us where you have sent us, go ahead of us, be there to meet us, resurrected, released in your world.
– Nicola Slee; sited in Zondervan,
The Book of a Thousand Prayers
Powell River United Church, 6932 Crofton Street, Powell River, BC, V8A 5H4, Canada