Gratitude Corner

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie

             There are efforts, and then there are ENORMOUS efforts. "Reimagining the Stations of the Cross" falls in the latter category. This project started with Pastor Elaine's vision and meetings with the twenty-plus artists. Artists then created their interpretations. Finally, John Arrison and Susan Webster skillfully and beautifully installed this exhibit. Hours of meetings, thought, and inspired work went into this exhibit.

Our thanks to Elaine, John, Susan, and the artists for this meditative and meaningful presentation that touches our hearts as we walk through Holy Week. 

We are in a season of “Care for Creation,” as we prepare our soils, our waters, our air, and our hearts for the blessings of new life. 

I am so thankful for our creation-caring parish, as more than a dozen of us bent down to the earth to pick up the trash along more than 1.1 miles of Route 15, from Reach Road to Elizabeth Haskell Way (south of There’s-a-Treat), twice the distance we covered last year. There were the sadly typical bottles, cans, cigarette butts, fast-food wrappers, nips, and pieces of plastic, but there were also remnants of a car accident, a truck tire tread, two other tires, metal, and…you name it, some of it pretty stinky.

What we brought with us were gloves, boots, reflective clothing, trash poker sticks (that’s a technical term), and a really fun spirit of cleaning up. What we took away was four cars of trash (see photo), a renewed spirit of Care for Creation, and the gift of fellowship and fun.

Thank you to the Friday afternoon gang of Miriam, Pete, Barbara K, Charlie, John, Nancy, and Cindy. Thank you, too, to the Saturday morning gang of Woody, Jonny, Barb P, Dan, Lori, Jo, and John. You nailed it!!!

John Arrison