January Programs

Fire in Winter

 

 

"Since Advent comes at winter time, fire is a fitting sign to help us celebrate Advent.  If God is to become really incarnate for us, then fire will have to be present in our prayer. Our worship and devotion will have to stoke the kind of fire in our souls that can truly change our hearts. Ours is a great responsibility not to waste this Advent time."  

 

~Edward Hays

A Well-Rounded Retreat

Women of Emanuel Baptist Church of Stamford, CT, had a fall retreat at Wisdom House which combined religious teachings, worship, community building, and creative crafts.

Seeking Light

 

 

"We are all looking for light, ever-more light.

Why not seek it together?"

 

~ Alfred Steiglitz

Grace

 

 

Thanks & blessings be

to the Sun & the Earth

for this bread & this wine,

this fruit, this meat, this salt,

this food;

thanks be & blessing to them

who prepare it, who serve it;

thanks & blessings to them

who share it

(& also the absent & the dead).

Thanks & Blessing to them who bring it

(may they not want),

to them who plant & tend it,

harvest & gather it

(may they not want);

thanks & blessing to them who work

& blessing to them who cannot;

may they not want - for their hunger

sours the wine & robs

the taste from the salt.

Thanks be for the sustenance & strength

for our dance & work of justice, of peace.

 

~ Rafael Jesus Gonzalez ~

 

(In Praise of Fertile Land, edited by Claudia Mauro)