A Letter from Lindy Oct 30

Pilgrims,

Does it feel as mind-numbing to you that we are already at the end of October?! I feel like Fall is crumbling through my fingers like dried leaves dropping from the tree. I’m sure my travels this month have contributed to my sense of not having a grip on time, as have adjusting to my mom in a new community and my siblings withdrawing back to their own rhythms and lives, leaving my mom and me to figure out to to find our own balance of work/life/care without additional support. As my dad would quip, “aging is not for the faint-hearted.” Well, technically he said it a little more crassly, but I softened his language for the good of community :)
We are deep into so many things! Budget, stewardship have reached the top of their bell curve with “Meet the Budget Sunday” and our Moderator and Budget Chair’s
carefully considered pledge ask. As they shared, we are learning our way forward after two plus years of a completely altered landscape for what/how it means to be church. That learning feels accentuated as we search for a new Music Director/Accompanist, imagining the next chapter of Pilgrim’s journey. I am deeply sensitive to the many emotions that may arise with such important unknowns, and recognize that our balance could easily tip toward a more anxious present.
That is why it was such a God blessing when Felix and I began our deep dive into Advent planning. Not only the anticipation of bringing Pilgrim traditions back onto the calendar, but the resources from which we draw invited us into the sacred texts of the season through a clearer chronological storyline of the events that lead up to and follow Christ’s birth. As we imagined bringing these stories to life within our worship context, wrapped in Pilgrim’s sacred rhythms, it became impossible to not experience the hope that God breathes into our lives, even amidst.
I pray that we feel, and mid-wife, holy hope as God calls us forth together.
with grace and love,

Pastor Lindy (she/her)whypronouns matter

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