Message from Light of God Ministry • Reverend Mary White
Something to Contemplate…
From “Tao Te Ching” Stephen Mitchell writes
Look, and it can’t be seen. Listen, and it can’t be heard. Reach, and it can’t be grasped. Above, it isn’t bright. Below, it isn’t dark.
Seamless, unnameable, it returns to the realm of nothing. Form that includes all forms, image without an image, subtle, beyond all conception. Approach it and there is no beginning; follow it and there is no end. You can’t know it, but you can be it, at ease in your own life.
Just realize where you come from: this is the essence of wisdom.
With Love,
Rev. Mary
All Are Welcome With Love In-person Worship Sundays at 11am
FAMILY FUN WITH BRENDA PIELLE
Dear Friends:
It's back to school time! How has the start up week gone for you? I am wishing you, your children, and your youth a smooth transition to this time of returning to routines and structure for our weeks and days.
September feels like New Year's, almost more so than January. I wonder what kinds of learning goals we as adults can consider for ourselves? I would like to try journal writing and reading more / watching TV less.
This Sunday is Grandparents' Day and the theme is presented in the videos this week.
The Parent Tot video has two short books: one called "I Love My Grandma" and one called "I Love My Grandpa". The following songs are included: "Higgledee Piggledee Bumblebee", "I Love My Family", "Itsy Bitsy Spider", "I Can Feel You Near Me God" and "Jesus Loves Me".
The Family Fun video has some discussion about grandparents as well as these songs: "Like a Rock", "Over My Head", "The Unicorn", "Grandma's Feather Bed", and "You Are My Sunshine".
Enjoy!
Brenda Pielle
Reaching Out to Families
Powell River United Church
READING Spirituality & Everyday
From “A Woman's Book of Days” by Donna Sinclair
One mark of Celtic Christianity – which flourished in Ireland and Scotland and the monasteries of England and Europe from about the seventh to the ninth century – was that the spiritual was not separated off from the rest of life. It was all of a piece. Everything was permeated with faith. Perhaps that time is returning. The notion that spirituality is something for Sunday, that somehow God doesn’t live in the everyday world, is coming apart. Churches that have tried to contain God and make God play by certain rules, defined by a few, are breaking into little pieces too. And God is bursting forth, delighted to be free.
Kid’s United (Sunday School) is starting this Sunday, September 11. We are planning stories, games and songs for 10 years old and younger. Any young people 11 and older are welcome to come and help out. We can always use some help.
– Elsie and Marilynn
Poem: Faith
From “River Flow” by David Whyte
I want to write about faith, about the way the moon rises over cold snow, night after night, faithful even as it fades from fullness, slowly becoming that last curving and impossible sliver of light before the final darkness.
But I have no faith myself, I refuse it the smallest entry.
Let this then, my small poem, like a new moon, slender and barely open, be the first prayer that opens me to faith.
PRUC Online Worship Service • Please Join us this Sunday, September 11th
You’re Invited to Sing with Love.
Choir Rehearsal begins on Thursday September 8th, at 7:30pm tonight at the Church.
All are welcome to attend.
The Way is Inward.
Prayer
Sited in “The Book of a Thousand Prayers”
– Zondervan
Faithful One, give my spirit power to climb to the fountain of all light and be purified.
Break through the mists of earth, the weight of clay, shine forth in splendour, you who are calm weather, And quiet resting-place for faithful souls.
You carry us, and you go before; You are the journey, and the journey’s end.
– Boethius (c.480 – 524)
Amen