Greetings to you!
It was good to see all of you this morning!
Thanks to our liturgists and our music team for making our worship meaningful.
A special thanks to our guest speaker Mark Woods, Executive Director of ANAZAO Community Partners, who helped us learn about how we can engage with mental health challenges that we or those around us may be grappling with in ways that offer support and healing. If you want to know more about ANAZAO, you can find more information about them here.
And, per your request, here is the poem Anthem by Leonard Cohen shared during fellowship time:
The birds they sang
At the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
Has passed away
Or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
Be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
Bought and sold
And bought again
The dove is never free.
We asked for signs
The signs were sent:
The birth betrayed
The marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
Of every government
Signs for all to see.
I can run no more
With that lawless crowd
While the killers in high places
Say their prayers out loud.
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
A thundercloud
They're gonna hear from me.
You can add up the parts
But you won't have the sum
You can strike up the march,
There is no drum
Every heart, every heart
To love will come
But like a refugee.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
