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Rector's Reflection: Embracing a 'Season of Creation'
Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” I know a lot of us living and praying in the wilds of North Stamford can relate to those words. I know that I can. When I was a boy, my father and I lived in a small house on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. On summer afternoons, I would wander through the orchard he managed. The apple and cherry trees would give way to fields of wildflowers and, eventually, the edge of the Wenatchee National Forest. Among the towering trees in the forest, I had some of my first encounters with the divine. Creation itself becomes an expression of God’s desire to draw us into relationship with the One who made us.
Some of you have asked me whether we might find ways to more intentionally honor God’s creation in our common life. It seems especially fitting for a community named after St. Francis of Assisi that gathers amid the wonder of North Stamford’s woods. Beginning this Sunday, St. Francis will join countless churches around the world in observing the Season of Creation, a time of prayer, reflection, and renewed commitment to the care of God’s good creation.
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