November 19, 2025,
Dear Friend,
Do you ever feel like changes are happening too quickly and then, on other fronts, not quickly enough? We often speak of the winds of change and it is a very appropriate metaphor because winds really can have a profound effect. I was amazed on Monday to see how the wind was stirring up the waves on lake Skatutakee in Harrisville. Check out the following video, filmed on the eastern end of the lake.
Consider, Friend, that wind is weightless and water is one of the heavier, most dense, substances on the planet and yet consider how the weightless wind can have such an incredible effect. In this case, the wind is moving down from Beech Hill and is funneled through the valley and across a long expanse of open water so the wind can stir up waves that look more like ocean waves than lake waves.
If weightless wind can combine to generate a force strong enough to move water like that, just imagine what people of like mind and heart can accomplish. The early Christians began a movement that changed the entire world (for better, mostly, but for worse in some ways, too). We are part of a movement now that is reclaiming the liberating message in the Gospel and extending that to include all of humankind. It is a big job but we are together in the work; together we are stronger and together we are the winds of change. May God’s Holy Spirit guide us.
“The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” – John 3:8
Save the Dates
Nov. 23 Giving Tree begins
Nov. 30 First Sunday of Advent
Nov. 30 Ornament Making and Soup Luncheon after church
Nov. 30-Dec. 31 Heifer Project
Dec. 5,6,7 Book Sale in the Church Hall
Dec. 21 Christmas Pageant Sunday 10:30
Dec. 24 Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 7:30
Please join me in a spirit of prayer, if you wish.
God of all, I am so grateful for the dynamic world in which we live. For the winds and the waters, for the plants, trees, and animals, for the sunlight and the starlight, I give thanks. For all the lessons I learn of love, of forgiveness, and of your grace, I pray to live true to what I have learned. For all I have yet to learn, I pray to be enlightened. Grant me your patience and perseverance in facing the demands of my life. Stir in me a compassion for others and steer me away from judgment. I pray to see all as you see, to love all as you love, to serve all as best I can. This I pray in Christ’s name. Amen.
“One thing I ask of the Lord; this I seek: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.” -Psalm 27:4
Your Friend,
Traceymay
603-715-0990
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