Minister’s Message

Dear Friends,
I am grateful this week for a break from Fellowship duties and responsibilities. I’ll be reading, meditating, and enjoying time with family. As always, I remain available for pastoral emergencies, and the best way to reach me is to call and leave a message. I pray this line of poetry from “Love After Love” by Saint Lucian poet, playwright, and 1992 Nobel prize winner Derek Walcott  is comforting and sustaining for you in this holiday season and holy time and last week of reflection in the theme of “Healing”: “You will love again the stranger who was your self/[. . .] Give Bread. Give back your heart /to itself, to the stranger who has loved you /all your life, whom you ignored/ for another [. . .]”

 

May you remember, today and every day, that you are loved, you are worthy, you are welcome, and you are needed. May you feel it so, and may it be so.

Blessings, Rev. Rita