Be Silent
January 28th, 2024Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany10:30 a.m.Rev. Nicole Lamarche Welcome again on what is in our tradition the fourth Sunday after the Epiphany. I love saying liturgical things like that! You won’t hear that anywhere else! Before we get much further, I invite you to take some deeper breaths with me. Arriving, tuning in, […]
God Changed
Jonah 3:1-5, 10Sunday January 21st, 2024By Rev. Nicole Lamarche Welcome again as you are. I invite you now to take some deeper breaths, letting ourselves arrive a bit more fully, so we can all hear whatever message God has for us today. And I invite you to join me in this prayer from Psalm 19. […]
Wonderfully Made 2024
Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 and On Beauty by Kahlil GibranSunday January 14th, 2024By Rev. Nicole Lamarche What a gift that we have this beautiful circle and that we can be here together like this and also that we have the Livestream for those who couldn’t get out today. Welcome again as you are on this second […]
By Another Road
Matthew 2:1-12 and Home By Another Way by Barbara Brown TaylorSunday January 7th, 2023Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Thank you Karen! I heard that last Sunday you hummed Silent Night. That’s beautiful. Keep the music going however we can. I invite you now to join me now in taking some deeper breaths, allowing ourselves to tune […]
Christmas Eve Message
December 24th, 20237 p.m.Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche The photograph was so unusual, so miraculous that it was not believed when it first hit the cover of the newspapers. With helmets tilted, a cigarette dangling from the mouth of the one in the front, the mini crowd included a German soldier standing alongside British troops from […]
Loving Lavishly
Luke 1:26-38 and Everything is Waiting for You by DavidSunday December 24th, 2023By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Good morning and welcome again to what is in our tradition the fourth Sunday in Advent with the theme of love and tonight we will gather for Christmas Eve! Today we get the privilege of traveling two liturgical […]
Living Joyfully
Luke 1:46b-55 and Excerpts from The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton AbramsSunday December 17th, 2023By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Good morning and welcome again to what is in our tradition the third Sunday in Advent. What a gift that we have this place and […]
Creating Peace
Isaiah 40:1-11 and Excerpts from Being Peace by Thich Nhat HanhSunday December 10th, 2023By Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again on this second Sunday of Advent just as you are, with whatever you are carrying or however you are feeling, maybe you are a little tired? Some of us were up late last night! But it […]
Finding Hope
Mark 13:24-37 and For the New Year, 1981 by Denise LevertovDecember 3rd, 2023By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again on this first Sunday of Advent! Today we begin a new liturgical year, a new season on our spiritual journeys and it feels important to ritualize these shifts. Thank you to our crew who adorned this […]
The Kin-dom of Heaven Will Be Like This
Matthew 25:13-14 and What We Need is Here by Wendell BerryNovember 12th, 2023By Rev. Nicole M. Lamarche Welcome again on and welcome those who are joining on the livestream. Thank you, Jackie, for convening and preaching last week. We remembered the saints who have crossed over and also the ones who are still with us […]