Dear Friends who are ministering in the community.....
There are so many of you touching and opening avenues in this world.
My thoughts and prayers are with you these days.
I have just returned home from meetings at Meadville/Lombard on their
expanded Modified Residency Program. On Tuesday Nan Hobart, their new
chaplain, gathered us at noon. During the service Jim Hobart, her husband,
added to our reflections. Now there will be a government response to
this
tragedy. What will be our religious response?
What will be our religious response..... created from the fabric of
our Unitarian Universalist history, our experience and our wisdom as
individuals and congregations?
I shift through the many names of each of you and thoughts about the
work you do; and I am aware of the many hands that are reaching into
this anguished society. And I think of the many stories you bring back
to us. And the many doors for service you open for us in the ministries
that you serve.
The world into which we send you needs us now more than ever. And
we who gather for comfort and clarity need you, too. Draw a picture
for us of the world as you experience it. Call us to help you in the
ministries you serve now. And from these pathways we will answer Jim's
question..... "What will be our religious response?"
May you gain strength from the bonds we have made together. May you
have courage to find a better way from the wisdom we continue to discover
together. May the ministries you serve open new doors for new answers
in a world where war only destroys.
If you are far afield in the work we have sent you to, send word back.
If you can come home, come and ask for our help, so the response from
these old visions of unity and freedom can become a strong answer to
this question Jim brings us. I and many others look forward to hearing
from you.
May the ways of peace touch us all.....
