Messiah Community Church

It's been 50 days since Easter, which makes today Pentecost Sunday. Come and worship!

It is so easy, in these days, to carry anger and bitterness over the state of things. It happens to me all the time. It's a state of mind and spirit that can weigh so heavy and eat away at us from the inside out.
When I think of Jesus as The Way, it means a way that doesn't give all my energy to the drama that wants to make me bitter. It means keeping my gaze fixed on what is bigger than all the nonsense. We don't ignore the nonsense, but neither do we let it run the show in our hearts and minds.
We belong to the One who is Love. Let us remember today and as often as necessary to turn our gaze back here.
Love is stronger than death and the death-dealing ways of this world.
Come and worship. Come as you are.
9:30AM at Messiah Community Church

"Earth Day" by Jane Yolen

"I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
Each blade of grass,
Each honey tree,
Each bit of mud,
And stick and stone
Is blood and muscle,
Skin and bone.
And just as I
Need every bit
Of me to make
My body fit,
So Earth needs
Grass and stone and tree
And things that grow here
Naturally.
That’s why we
Celebrate this day.
That’s why across
The world we say:
As long as life,
As dear, as free,
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me. "

(the "Cathedral," Na Pali Coast, Kauai, HI)

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