“I wasted several of my of early grade school years worrying about death. It scared me. Nevertheless, as Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, Christ calls us to come and die. Why and to what? Paul reasoned that by dying, we set ourselves free to be raised in Jesus Christ.” –Katharine E. Matchette, Fruit of the Vine

Query: How do you spend time with God?

The Future of Community

We all come from a place of pain

and a place of peace

and the sharing is a resurrection.

It’s all right to be human, hungry, hurt;

and it’s all right to have joy, serenity, hope.

Trust opens our mouths to tell the truth of our pain;

trust opens our hearts to the balm of love;

trust opens our eyes to the thread of light

that weaves us into one.

–Carol Bialock, Coral Castles