Their Eyes Were Opened
May My Heart Always Be Open by E.E. Cummings and Luke 24:13-35 April 19, 2026 Good morning again, thank you for being here and thank you for the privilege of your time. I have always felt the important of a weekly gathering centered around love. Thank you for being a part of it. I […]
Outside the Tomb
Only This World By Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and John 20:1-18 By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche April 5, 2026 Welcome again on this beautiful day! Welcome with whatever you are feeling or holding or bringing into this room, welcome to you who are joining online! Thank you for the privilege of your presence and your time on this Easter […]
The Crowds That Went Ahead
Matthew 21:1-11 and Excerpts from The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas by Mahatma Gandhi March 29, 2026 Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Good morning and welcome again, however you are connecting, with whatever you are bringing or holding into the room today. May you feel at home here […]
Sleeper, Awake!
Ephesians 5:8-14 and A Prayer of Consciousness by Paula McCaslinMarch 15, 2026 Welcome as you are, with whatever you are carrying today. I invite you now to take some deeper breaths, breathing in love, breathing out hate, breathing in hope, breathing out despair. As you are moved, I invite you to join me […]
Sent Out Beyond
John 4:5-42 and Go to the Limits of Your Longing by Rainer Maria RilkeSunday March 8, 2026Third Sunday in Lent What a joy that we got a little winter! I feel so grateful to see all of you today. Thank you for springing forward! Thank you again for the privilege of your time. I invite […]
Get Up
Matthew 17:1-9 and an excerpt from The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda GormanSunday March 1, 2026First Sunday in Lent Good morning and welcome again! I really needed to be here today! Thank you again for the privilege of your time. I invite you now to take some deeper breaths […]
Shedding All It Did Not Need
Matthew 4:1-11 and Wilderness Blessing by Jan Richardson Hi everybody! Thanks again for being here. Thank you for the privilege of your time. I invite you to join me in a spirit of prayer. May we all receive whatever we need to today. Gracious God, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of my […]
Blessed Are
Matthew 5:1-12 They left Fort Worth Texas on October 26th starting a 2,300 mile adventure, well really a pilgrimage walking day by day, making their way to Washington D.C. There are 19 to 24 depending on the day, who walk at a time and they are Vietnamese and Thai Buddhist monks from the Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center and they […]
Knit Together
1 Corinthians 1:10-18 Excerpts from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer January 25, 2026 We have been cast out of existing structures, that’s the phrase Czech playwright, poet, and political organizer Vaclav Havel used when he was writing about living under the fall of his government. And it feels […]
Reach for the Neither
Thank you again for being here! As you are moved, I invite you to join me in a spirit of prayer. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart, be acceptable in your sight our Rock and Our Redeemer. Amen. With a ball of crumpled tissues in my lap, I […]