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Weekly Message from Traceymay

May 5, 2025

Dear Friend, 

We are living through the Great Unfurling here in New Hampshire.  Life is pushing up through the forest floor and along roadsides everywhere.  Life is emerging from the branches of trees that have survived the long, cold, freezing winter.  Much of this new life is first visible as coiled or furled forms that are not unlike how we all began.  The ferns display it most dramatically.

These ferns make me smile, in part because they look like a little community all huddled together, heads bowed in common prayer.  Daily I can see their unfurling, their reaching, their growth toward the light. 
Friend, we are in community together and I trust there are multiple ways that we are growing, reaching, and unfurling into the people that our life experiences are producing.  May the upwelling of life this season carry us to new levels of being…aligned with That of God within us, and unfurling with all the confidence that we are loved and we ARE love.  So be it.

“Grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ. To God be the glory both now and forever! Amen.”  II Peter 3:18

 

The list of furnishings for the 3-generation family from Venezuela is nearly filled.  What a tremendous community effort this has been.  Hallelujah!

A friendly reminder to keep up with your pledges for 2025, please.  We depend on each other in this way; it is a beautiful thing!
Thank you.
Pledges may be dropped in the offering plate, brought to the church office Th or Fr 9-1, or mailed to DCC PO Box 308 Dublin, NH 03444

Reveal of Invisible Ministries

We should all know that just before Easter, our Outreach Committee delivered Market Basket food cards to the local elementary school for families.  Outreach has also contributed a scholarship for Dublin Community Playground that will allow attendance to this most wonderful summer program for a child whose family could not otherwise afford it.  Our contributions are doing GREAT THINGS!

Mental Health was the number one choice of a focus area for the next Monadnock Interfaith Project to research.  Input from over 400 individuals from various faith and civic groups participated, including representatives from our church.

MIP is forming a mental health research team to identify where we can be most impactful. The first team meeting and training will be Wednesday May 14th, 6:30pm at the UCC Church of Keene. RSVP here. 

Over time, the team will seek to understand the mental health environment in our region, the gaps, and the opportunities for positive change. 

If this topic interests you, join our team and help make a difference!

Please join me in a spirit of prayer.

Holy One, I hold many concerns in this moment…too many to count, really, and yet I know that what I need most to do is focus on your light to guide my way in how I respond.  Guide me.  Teach me.  Strengthen me.  Expand me.  May I meet the demands of this particular time in history with a will to understand, a heart full of compassion, the patience to see the long arc of change, and the grace to reach out my hand and grasp the hands of others that we may find our way together.  This I pray in Christ’s name.  Amen.

“We are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.”  I Corinthians 3:9

Working together with you,

Traceymay
603-715-0990
Traceymaykalvaitis@gmail.com 

 

 

 

 

 

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