Welcome

We traveled from store to store searching for just the right napkins, plates, and table coverings. We ended up with napkins from one store, table coverings, plates, and cups from another, and the centerpieces will be found in still another. On some days I would call this obsessing, or perhaps needless striving toward perfection, but not today.

Today we are preparing to welcome. A new person will enter our lives, and we hope in time will enter our hearts. We have opened our doors to her and on Sunday we will share worship together for the first time. At Eucharist our lives will be connected in a mysterious and holy way. That is one of the great treasures of Eucharist – we come away from it not only healed but also joined together.

We will come Sunday by Sunday to create and re-create this community. We will feed each other, we will be fed by the worship we share and the new voice in our midst, and we will share that abundance with others.