March 15, 2026
LENTEN LUNCH TODAY: PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY
11-12
Dublin Church Hall
BYO lunch if you wish
Dear Friend,
Dear Friend,
Last night I took a walk not long after dark. The stars were out and the warmest day of the year had melted so much snow that my favorite rivulet was running high and singing brightly. I could take a picture or a video, but I realized I could record the song and how it changed as I walked along the banks. While listening to it this morning, I closed my eyes to try to capture how the sounds change as I walked downstream. See if you can hear it, too, HERE. The changes are subtle but sure. Listening carefully is a skill and I aim to become more adept.
Postscript from Traceymay at 3:00 pm: A Friend contacted me and said they could not open the sound file this morning and I tried and could not open it either, so I will try again to bring it to you HERE.
I know that when I am really listening I am not just hearing; I am sensing and I am learning. Jesus invites us into this kind of deep listening in Luke 8: 17-18. “For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. Therefore consider carefully how you listen.” What an interesting statement this is! I will refrain from saying too much about it. Jesus’s words say it all; may we consider carefully how we listen, “for there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.”
ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING
-this Sunday-
Each spring we join thousands of other churches across eight other denominations to gather a special offering for the world. What we collect funds health, education, and agricultural development, emergency relief, refugee ministries, and both international and domestic disaster response.
If this effort speaks to you, please consider contributing this Sunday during the worship service, online HERE
Or mail a check to: United Church of Christ, P.O. Box 71957, Cleveland, Ohio 44194 with OGHS on the memo line.
Thank you, Friend.
I invite you to join me in a spirit of prayer.
Beloved, guide me in growing ever more careful in how I listen. Open my senses to perceive the essence of an other as I aim to suspend judgement and opinion. In so doing, I pray that the bonds of Friendship can take root and flourish. This I pray in the name of Christ, the one from whom so many blessings flow. Amen.
“For those who have ears, let them hear.” -Matthew 11:15
Listening along with you,
Traceymay
603-715-0990
Traceymaykalvaitis@gmail.com
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