Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Walnut Hill Church Weekly Letter

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Greetings to all!

In his recent book, My Bright Abyss, author/poet Christian Wiman
reflects on his experience of faith in the context of several years 
living with cancer.  In this passage, he considers how faith changes 
over the course of one's life...

In fact, there is no way to "return to the faith of your childhood,"
not really, not unless you've just woken from a decades-long
and absolutely literal coma.  Faith is not some half-remembered
country into which you come like a long-exiled king, dispensing
the old wisdom, casting out the radical, insurrectionist aspects
of yourself by which you'd been betrayed.  No. Life is not an
error, even when it is.  That is to say, whatever faith you emerge
with at the end of your life is going to be not simply affected by
that life but intimately dependent upon it, for faith in God is, in
the deepest sense, faith in life - which means that even the 
staunchest life of faith is a life of great change.  It follows that
if you believe at fifty what you believed at fifteen, then you have
not lived - or have denied the reality of your life.

The scripture lessons for Sunday, June 9 ...
1 Kings 17:8-24
Galatians 1:11-24
Luke 7:11-17

Men's Coffee - Men are invited to gather for coffee on Saturday
mornings, 8am, at Paneras on Richmond Road.  Feel free to
stop by for as long or short a time as your schedule allows. No
rsvp required.

Sunday Conversations continue this Sunday, June 9, 10am,
in Trinity Hall.  The focus for this Sunday's conversation will
be an introduction to the book, My Bright Abyss, by Christian
Wiman (see above).  

A Congregational Meeting has been called for Sunday, June 9,
immediately after morning worship.  The reason for this meeting
is to elect two Directors for the Walnut Hill Cemetery Association.
Use reply email or call the church office (263-5304) for more
information regarding this meeting.

The 2nd Annual Walnut Hill Pancake Ride is scheduled for
Saturday, July 13, 9am, at Walnut Hill Church.  Check the sign up
sheet in the Sanctuary foyer or use reply email to inquire 
about volunteering.

In the Community:  Local historian, Yvonne Giles, will lead a
two-mile walking tour of the historic East End of Lexington on
Saturday, June 8, 1pm - 3pm.  For more information, including
ticket purchase, contact the Lyric Theatre (280-2201).  Following
the tour, St. Andrews Episcopal Church (401 N. Upper St) will host 
a discussion.  Call the church (254-8325) for more information.

Peace to all.

Mike Ward







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