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Letter from Pastor Caroline:

May 2008:

Dear Friends in Christ,

This is a season of transitions: weddings, graduations, mission/mutual learning trips, job changes, vacations. The LOGOS year ends; Sunday School takes a summer sabbatical. Circles re-start in September. Vacation Bible School begins. Baseball and softball tournaments gear up. We are in a season of change, yet God never changes. God's love is constant, and the Advocate, our Befriender, poured out in power on Pentecost, is with us always. Love never ends. So, while everything else turns in the dance of life, in this time of transitions, we celebrate the connections, past, present, and future:

Circles of Our Lives
Within the circles of our lives
we dance the circles of the years,
the circles of the seasons
within the circles of the years,
the cycles of the moon
within the circles of the seasons,
the circles of our reasons
within the cycles of the moon.

Again, again we come and go,
changed, changing. Hands
join, unjoin in love and fear,
grief and joy. The circles turn,
each giving into each, into all.

Only music keeps us here,
each by all the others held.

In the hold of hands and eyes
we turn in pairs, that joining
joining each to all again.

And then we turn aside, alone,
out of the sunlight gone
into the darker circles of return.
-Wendell Berry

In the Lord, friendships are forever. Because of the Spirit, we are joined to God. We thank God for mothers who held our hands for awhile, and are in our hearts forever. We pray for the graduates, moving into a new season of their lives. We remember those who gave their lives in service to our country, now out of the sunlight gone but, we pray, in God's eternal light. Whether it's the hokey-pokey or the circles of our years, God leads us in the dance.

Thanks be to God.

Grace and peace,
Pastor Caroline