Greetings to all!
Mother's Day provides an opportunity to reflect on our experience
of family, especially those seemingly mundane events that occur
in families every day. We can likely call any number of them to
mind from our own recent experience. Consider this reflection by
Wendy Wright from her essay, "Sacred Dwelling."
The moments are at once so terribly mundane and so transparently
sacred; ordinary moments which, for an instant, connect us to the
depth, width, height and length of love. Family life is full of them.
It is also full of thousands of moments when love shows itself and
we fail to notice. And it is full of thousands of moments in which we
come face to face with love's painful absence. I turn the ancient
hymn text over in my mind:
"Where charity and love prevail
There God is found."
If there ever was a school of love, it is the family; a school not simply
in the sense of an environment where information is passed on, but
an environment that forms us. There we not only learn our lessons
in the arts of loving, but we may be shaped, molded, converted, de-
and re-constructed by Love itself.
(as found in Family Ministry)
The scripture lessons for Sunday, May 12, Mother's Day ...
Isaiah 66:10-13
2 Timothy 1:3-7
Mark 3:31-35
Sunday Conversations continue this Sunday, May 12, 10am, in
Trinity Hall. The topic for this Sunday will be "The Changing
Shape of Family." Come enjoy a cup of coffee, join the
conversation, or just listen in.
The Spring Potluck is coming on Sunday, May 19. Mark your
calendar, and plan to join us for this delicious Walnut Hill tradition.
We are currently welcoming volunteers to help with some of the
details of this event. Use reply email to volunteer.
Calling all Graduates! On Sunday, May 19, we will be recognizing
Walnut Hill youth graduating from high school. We do not want to
leave anyone out, so please let us know (by reply email) if you have
a young person in your household graduating from high school this
spring.
In the neighborhood:
*Global Warming: A Climate Wakeup Story will be presented
on May 8, 7pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Lexington.
This event is sponsored by KY Interfaith Power and Light, one of the
organizations present at our recent Earth Day festival. For more
information, visit http://kentuckyipl.org/050813.html .
*The Grape Gallop, 5K run/walk, will be held at the Jean Farris
Winery on May 11. Registration proceeds benefit the Lexington
Cancer Foundation. For more information, contact Jean Farris
Winery or Body Structure Fitness Facility.
*A Bike and Bike Show (featuring bicycles and motorcycles)
will be held at Gethsemane Lutheran Church on May 18. Proceeds
benefit Gethsemane Outreach Ministry. For more information, see
the flyer posted in Trinity Hall or call 859-230-9788.
Peace to all.
Mike Ward
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