Our church has gotten a new Interim Minister this week after a 10-month absence of a minister. It's hard to be a church without a minister. We've done it enough times, but its certainly not the preference. On one hand, we sometimes need the break to reflect on our community to see what the next best step is. On the other hand, too much time alone can result in apathy, disinterest, or worse, over involvement to fill in the gaps.
I'm not a bible thumping, literalistic, religious zealot by any means. I'm on the liberal end of the spectrum and happily so. For me church is a place to practice my spirituality, connect with others with a similar theology, and to some degree a place to volunteer and put into practice the act of putting others over self. I definitely need to do more of the that.
Here's to new beginnings. Here's to grieving what was lost. Here's to a new day.
Best of luck to our new pastor and to ourselves that we might find a common seed from which to begin the growth of something new. Transformation. May we all find a way to continually transform over the course of our lives. Much like the Phoenix rising from the ashes.
I'm not a bible thumping, literalistic, religious zealot by any means. I'm on the liberal end of the spectrum and happily so. For me church is a place to practice my spirituality, connect with others with a similar theology, and to some degree a place to volunteer and put into practice the act of putting others over self. I definitely need to do more of the that.
Here's to new beginnings. Here's to grieving what was lost. Here's to a new day.
Best of luck to our new pastor and to ourselves that we might find a common seed from which to begin the growth of something new. Transformation. May we all find a way to continually transform over the course of our lives. Much like the Phoenix rising from the ashes.
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