A Letter from Lindy May 15

Pilgrims,

I held with great care the way in which my letter last week touched many of you in many different ways. Whether it was a “wouff, Lindy, that was hard” to problem-solving how to fill the pews, my words certainly stirred your thinking. I am grateful for all of the ways in which you have reached back to me because we are the church together.

In being the church together, I would like to use this platform to invite and encourage all who are able to join us on Sunday beyond worship for a picnic lunch hosted by the Dickerson family and then transition back into the sanctuary for a celebration of grateful memory for the life and ministry of Florence Dickerson through Pilgrim. Along with her husband and other faithful Pilgrims, she created an amazing foundation upon which we stand. This legacy deserves our collective witness and I hope you will join me in so doing. 

I believe our gathering with the Dickerson family to proclaim, “well done, good and faithful servant” also helps us practice an attitude of gratitude as beloved community– one of our hopes as we lean into our mental well-being. Felix keeps graciously reorienting my countenance to see all the glimpses of good that abound. As one who tends to doom-scroll and rubberneck at the muck and mire of all the bad we are experiencing in this season, I need her life-line of positivity to draw me into remembering God’s promise of all that is good in God’s creation. Maybe we all can be a life-line for each other.

here’s hoping.
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