In Search of Meaning

Rabbi Harold Kushner once said, "Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter so that the world will at least be a little different for our having passed through it." "…To believe in God is not to affirm His existence. To believe in God means to trust God, to rely on God to be there for you when you are afflicted by despair, to light your path when you are uncertain as to what to do."

I have been watching "The Crown" on Netflix. In the last episode I watched, Prince Phillip went through a mid-life crises as he questioned the meaning of life and also the meaning of his life in particular. He turned to various answers: exercising relentlessly… and he was particularly fascinated by the astronauts who landed on the moon. He was discouraged when he realized that, while they were brave men, they hadn't really reflected on the meaningfulness of their exploration.

Prince Phillip had previously scoffed at a group of priests who had gathered to reflect on their lives and their ministry. He ended up going back to them and asking them to forgive him and confessed his own sense of lostness; wondering and wandering; his search for meaning.

We find our meaning in God. Faith is the journey as we seek after God's presence in our lives. Every day when we turn our lives to Jesus we discover a little bit more of who we are, whose we are, and what our purpose is in this life.

Today we are blessed with another day to reflect his wondrous light and share his glory with all that we meet. That is indeed a blessing.

With love and prayers,

Cindy     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LENTEN BOOK STUDY in february

BLACK & WHITE: DISRUPTING RASCISM ONE FRIENDSHIP AT A TIME by Tessa Hadra and John HambricK.

Most of us don't need to make speeches. We need to make friends. This is the core message of this important book. If you will risk forging friendships with those who do not look like you, it will change the way you see the world, and that could change the world.

We would love to have you take part as we consider race relations in our world today and how we might improve them in our day-to-day lives. Our book study groups will be led by Jamie McDonald.

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We look forward to learning together!