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Note From Pastor Isa – July 2022

Rejuvenation

Our summer theme is Rejuvenation.  When asked mid-June to reflect on what their personal themes were this summer, the Sunday Service conveners shared these words:

Healing, Recovery, Renewal, Hope, Rest, Setting intentions, Becoming, Self Care

When we came upon the word REJUVENATION, we shared a … read more.

Note From Pastor Isa – June 2022

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

This phrase has become a part of my inner soundtrack, but I recently got curious about where it came from.  What I learned:  though it expanded within American consciousness in 2008 when spoken by then Senator Obama, he … read more.

Celebrating Blessings (June 2022)

This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Celebrating Blessings

 

A Soul Matters facilitator once shared, “I guess after plan A fails, I need to remember there’s still a whole alphabet out there.” 

Who of us doesn’t need a little help remembering that? Especially after enduring Covid for … read more.

Note From Pastor Isa – May 2022

What’s in a name?

I’ve been with you all now for six months and I’m feeling like I’m getting to know you!  From Sunday Services, Action Wednesday, and one-on-one conversations, I’m learning your stories, your hopes, your dreams, and … your names!  I know a lot … read more.

Nurturing Beauty (May 2022)

This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Nurturing Beauty

 

Beauty.

We appreciate it.

How could we not?

We wonder at it.

Get absorbed in it.

Analyze it, if it’s got a frame around it.

 

We make it.

Grow it.

Point at it.

Collect it.

Share it.

Save it.

 

But how often do we listen to it?

 

How often do … read more.

Note From Pastor Isa – April 2022

Waking up this morning I smile.

A full, fresh, new day is before me.

I vow to live fully in each moment

and look upon all beings with eyes of compassion.

These words have been with me since childhood, when I … read more.

Awakening (April 2022)

This month’s Soul Matters theme explores Awakening

 

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.  Then you read a book (Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with [someone], and you discover that … read more.