Weekly Message from Traceymay

After 4 years of nurturing cuttings from a gardenia my Grandmother planted, I had the first bloom yesterday.  I only wish I could share the smell with you.

Dear Friend,

It was the study of geology that ushered me in to studying Science Education in school, particularly the idea that the rocks of the earth can reveal the history of events from millions of years ago.  I still pay an inordinate amount of attention to rocks.  Along the lakeshores near where I live, we have pink and purple sand.  I hope you can see it in the following video:

The sand is made up of garnets.  These garnets originally grew from molten liquid in the temperature range of 1500-2000 degrees fahrenheit.  That’s hot!  Perhaps for millions of years the garnets were held within their “parent rock” before wind, rain, glacial action, freezing and thawing eroded the parent rock enough that the garnet grains were released.  Carried then by rivulets and streams, the grains end up in lakes and are then sorted by wave currents.  The garnets are lighter weight than the silica sand so the garnets always end up on top…jewels in the sand.
In our own lifespans, it seems to me that we go through a similar process of being worn down and yet it is that same process of deterioration that reveals the jewels within us…wisdom from life experience, patience, empathy, conviction, confidence and capacity.  Those are some that come to my mind, but you may be experiencing other jewels in yourself that are coming to light.  May we remember that some jewels are only revealed through deterioration.  May we look for the jewels within us and within others, too.  They are there!

“Having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.”  -Revelation 21:11
“There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.”  -Proverbs 20: 15
“You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.”   -Isaiah 62: 3

A friend and colleague, Mennonite minister Rev. Pat Plude, has written a book and she will be offering a reading at the Toadstool in Peterborough on Saturday.   Pat spends time in the Monadnock region part of every year and otherwise she is in San Francisco.

The rummage sale is coming, and it’s time to reorganize the sheds! Please come Saturday August 2 at 9AM to help make some more room for donated items. It won’t take long, but we need willing helpers.   Heartfelt thanks from your new Gift of Thrift organizers,  May Clark and Teresa Imhoff

August

Friend, I will be away for the month of August, taking time for rest and renewal of spirit.  Please keep me in your prayers, if you would.

The link for the Sunday Service will be sent out each week via the DublinChurch@fairpoint.net email.  I look forward to being back in September and resuming the weekly emails at that time.  Until then, make the most of life wherever you are and know that there will be great offerings at Dublin Church each Sunday during August.

August 3:  Rev. Bob Kyte
August 10:  Baha’i Sunday
August 17: Felicity Pool
August 24:  Yummy Cady
August 31: Rev. Leaf Seligman

Every Sunday from 1-2, even in August
Vigil for Democracy: An Experiment in Non-Partisanship along 101 in Dublin center

Please join me in a spirit of prayer, if you wish.

Beloved God, I pray to be filled with love, peace, and reassurance.  Help me to not be swept away in despair with the state of the world, but instead infuse me with hope and the will to make my every word and my every action be a reflection of genuine care and concern.  I pray to be curious when faced with others who disagree with me, and patient, that we may find some common understanding.  I pray to be your hands and your words in this world.  This I pray in Christ’s name.  Amen.

““The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.”’   Numbers 6: 24-26

In Christ,

Traceymay
603-715-0990
Traceymaykalvaitis@gmail.com

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