Mid-Week Pause Service 1/19/22
This week’s Pause Worship Video is posted below. Order March on Washington Video Welcome-Travis Medley – Church Anew Prayer-Travis Precious Lord – Church Anew Mini-lecture on the Letter from a Birmingham Jail – Travis Closing Words Closing Song if you haven’t watched our reading of Letter from a Birmingham Jail, please do. As a reminder, this coming Sunday, January 23rd, worship will be online only.
| Bring your Hopes, Bring your Doubts, Feed your Soul. |
| Over the past few months, I have started and stopped and started again Kim Stanley Robinson’s book The Ministry for the Future. It is a cli-fi book (climate fiction) set in the near future as the world reacts to a heatwave that kills hundreds of thousands in India. I stopped the book because it was so depressing, then I started again because I read an interview with Robinson where he stated how optimistic he was about a climate future. The more I read the more hopeful the book does get, but it’s is difficult to absorb. But every now and then a thought or a vision emerges from the book and I think, “we can change, we can do this.” In a similar way, this is how the past few weeks have been for me. This latest experience with the omicron variant has been difficult to take. Probably not the best time for this variant to peak in Minnesota when it’s bitterly cold, grey, and isolating. But as I rode my bike around Lake Harriet the other day and looked at the art shanties I thought, “We should build a ‘chapel’ for next year.” This morning while scrolling through Twitter I saw a thread about Madonna del Ghisallo, the saint of bicyclists, and thought, “We should have a small portrait of her on the 41st side” the closest one is in a church in Portland, OR. Out of nowhere, in a gloomy moment a seed sprouts. I’m holding onto these seeds, they are getting me through this month. -How are you doing? -Where are you finding hope? -What seeds are you clutching in your hands? Peace, Travis Prayer for the Day “Disturb us, O Lord” by Archbishop Desmond Tutu Disturb us, O Lord when we are too well-pleased with ourselves when our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, O Lord when with the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the water of life when having fallen in love with time, we have ceased to dream of eternity and in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of Heaven to grow dim. Stir us, O Lord to dare more boldly, to venture into wider seas where storms show Thy mastery, where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. In the name of Him who pushed back the horizons of our hopes and invited the brave to follow. Amen, Find Judson on the internet through our link tree, linktr.ee/JudsonChurch |
