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Weekly Message from Traceymay

 

March 4, 2026

LENTEN LUNCH TODAY: UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM
11-12
Dublin Church Hall
BYO lunch if you wish

Dear Friend,

Dear Friend,

What are you doing to keep from sinking?  I hope you are doing something because things are CRAZY in the outer world.  We feel the pain and the fear and the despair because we are open-hearted and that is the price we pay (well worth it, in my opinion, not to be dead inside…unfeeling and uncaring).
I learned in my work at the Quaker boarding school, as my mentor taught me to clerk meetings, that if we had a particularly challenging agenda, with sensitive or potentially volatile business to attend to, then we would be best served to spend EXTRA time in silence at the beginning of the meeting, in preparation.  I learned that the silence would center us if we leaned into it.  The silence would provide a foundation from which we could then ENTER IN to the issues at hand, calmly, openly, hopefully.  In these challenging times in which we live, I encourage us to identify the habits and the people that keep us from sinking into despair.
This past week, instead of breaking trail through the meadow, I used snowshoes that a Friend gifted to me.  The snowshoes allow me to move across the snow without sinking into the depths.

This season of Lententide, not yet half way through, is the perfect time to identify what aids us and what hinders us.  Please, Friend, let’s take this time to consider carefully what we can do for ourselves so that we do not sink.  Jesus models this practice for us, as we are reminded in today’s Lenten devotional.

“Then each of them went home, while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.”    -John 7:53-8:1

We don’t have to necessarily go to a physical place for rest, renewal and sustenance.  This is a practice we can cultivate wherever we are and in whatever circumstances we find ourselves in.  It does take effort, though.  Please know that I am engaged in this effort, too; we are in it together! (and I am pulling for us)

Before we close in prayer, I ask for prayers for Larry Jackson and Katharine Fox.  Larry has been moved from the hospital into a place where he can receive rehabilitation.  Katharine is recovering from the flu and dealing admirably with all the changes and challenges.  Send them love.

God of our hearts and minds, in all we face in life remind us to turn our attention within to the place where there is only you, only love, only silence.  Guide us in how to access that place whenever we feel ourselves spiraling with worry, stress or anxiousness.  This I pray in Christ’s name.  Amen.

“As for you, Beloved, build up yourselves upon your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.  Keep yourselves in the love of God.”    -Jude 1:20

In love of God,

Traceymay
603-715-0990
Traceymaykalvaitis@gmail.com

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