What are we doing during Lent? There is not just one thing to choose but three! You can participate in them all or pick and choose, mix and match.
If you are part of a family grouping, in any way shape or form, consider being part of the Sunday morning Family Ministries session from 9:30 – 10:15 am. You will join a program called “Be the Change - - - towards a green and just society”.
Mahatma Gandhi offers us some insight into what this might mean. He said “be the change you want to see in the world”. Many of us are being called at this critical point in time to reflect upon how we are in the world and to shift into “right relationship” with ourselves, each other and all life on this planet.
The Be the Change Mission Statement is:
to support each other to Be the Change necessary to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet.
Every Sunday morning throughout Lent, you have the exciting possibility of becoming part of a Be the Change action circle. This will be an inter-active, fun and reflective process, designed to engage all ages. The values that will be explored will connect with our personal context and so inspire us to act in our everyday lives and be the change!
Listen to the words of Pablo Neruda “Keeping Silent” and take a few moments of quiet as they sink into your soul.
"Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak any language. Let‘s stop for a second and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines. We would all be together in a sudden strangeness.
If we were not so single minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt the sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the earth can teach us, as when everything seems dead in winter and later proves to be alive.
Now I’ll count to twelve and you keep quiet and I will go."
Blessings, Karen
This Sunday at Beach United Church:
10:30 am Worship Epiphany 8
11:30 am Annual Congregational Meeting
4:00 pm Taizé Community Vespers
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