Those two words can haunt us - or not

It's easy to be blind to our own sinfulness

"On this refreshment Sunday, the church invites us to remember that we are beloved children of God, a God who knows all our layers and loves us anyway."

The Master Gardener takes a long-range view of mercy, reconciliation and redemption

Three calls to action

In the midst of confusion, loss, hurt or temptation, God bids us to hold on

Beginnings, endings, and all that goes between

In the highs and lows of life, we are transfigured over and over again

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. - New American Standard Bible translation

“If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.” - St. Paul