|
Joy holds. Hope energizes. Love heals. For a while now, St. John’s, Georgetown has been exploring what it means to love. What does love in action look like? What are the skills of loving? What conditions make loving our neighbors easier? How does love spread? These aren’t abstract questions meant to distract us from hard times. They’re the kinds of questions that help us become a source of healing in a world that desperately needs it.
Over the last two years, we’ve learned a few things. Love in action shows up as justice, kindness, humility, and compassion. Joy and hope – whether in a community or a single human heart – create the conditions where love can flourish. Turning our attention to joy, we learned that joy holds: it holds space, holds people close, holds meaning, promise, and power. And we learned something about hope: it energizes, and it’s contagious, resilient, and powerful, often terrifying those whose power is built on fear.
So this Lent, rooted in joy and hope, St. John’s Georgetown will sow seeds of love – seeds we believe can help heal our hearts, our communities, and our country. Each day we’ll share stories (on Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, and our website) of good things breaking out in the world around us. And because joy and hope are contagious and build resilience, these tangible examples of justice, kindness, and compassion can inspire more acts of love and help others hold on through difficult times.
We are inviting you to contribute to this important project. We’ll start posting on February 18 and post each day until Palm Sunday (March 29). Send in a video (2 minutes max), captioned photo, audio file, poem, a short paragraph, or whatever helps us see or hear the goodness that you have found in the world. Send your files to SowingSeeds@stjohnsgeorgetown.org. Feel free to send more than one! If you need help, email Gini (@ stjohnsgeorgetown.org).
Together we can sow seeds of love that can grow and spread, and foster genuine healing – in our own hearts, our community, and the world.
| 
