Winter Weather & Worship Updates
Dear Friends,
Winter is coming. And this isn’t Game of Thrones.
First, some practical notes about this weekend:
All Sunday morning activities (all in-person services, all discipleship, SAY) have been cancelled this weekend. Worship will be online only this week (streamed at 9 am, and available later).
If we find the roads are passable, we will announce a single, in-person service. Watch for website, social media, and email updates.
Women’s Mahjong on Monday evening has been cancelled.
Please be careful and safe. Do not take unnecessary risks.
In case of emergencies, you can reach out to our clergy and staff directly using all the regular email and phone contact info, which will reach us at home (even the office phone).
We pray for those who don’t have warm shelter, or lose power, or experience medical emergencies, or for whom this storm will be a crisis in some other way.
But I also pray that we might see something of the majesty of God and the wonder of nature in it. Ecclesiasticus has this beautiful passage about a winter storm, and I leave you with this bit of wisdom from our scriptural traditions:
By [God’s] command he sends the driving snow / and speeds the lightnings of his judgement. / Therefore the storehouses are opened, / and the clouds fly out like birds. / In his majesty he gives the clouds their strength, / and the hailstones are broken in pieces. / The voice of his thunder rebukes the earth; / when he appears, the mountains shake. / At his will the south wind blows; / so do the storm from the north and the whirlwind. / He scatters the snow like birds flying down, / and its descent is like locusts alighting. / The eye is dazzled by the beauty of its whiteness, / and the mind is amazed as it falls. / He pours frost over the earth like salt, / and icicles form like pointed thorns. / The cold north wind blows, / and ice freezes on the water; / it settles on every pool of water, / and the water puts it on like a breastplate.
May your mind be amazed as the snow falls.
In Christ,
Fr. Andrew
