Letter from Lindy March 13

Hello Pilgrims,

Are you ready to spring forward on Sunday? With glimpses of spring weather poking through the last few weeks, I do not appreciate this throwback Thursday with 40 degree rainy, gray, cold temps–I actually wore gloves on my lunchtime walk around Woodlake. As much as I do not look forward to losing an hour’s sleep, for lingering sunlight and warmth, I will gladly sacrifice. Just being outside soaking up the vitamin D will most certainly help to blow away any hovering winter blues.

We got a foretaste this past Sunday didn’t we? There must have been pixie dust in the air as our amazing Auxiliary women brought us worship. What a Sunday! What stories! What music! What a collection of Pilgrims! The refrain I kept hearing as I moved through our fellowship mingle was “gosh, it feels like Pilgrim again.” Something truly special happened and I was so grateful to bear witness to the Holy moving among us. I just wanted to stand and breathe Spirit in and out, claiming its presence in our midst.

How our spirit might be present with Ukraine has been on our hearts and minds as the people of this country have withstood the unnatural forces of war that are destroying all they know. The reporting and photography have seared images of upheaval most of us cannot comprehend, evil perpetrated by human hands in 2022. Many have asked how we might respond. Although a few weeks ago when we first lifted Ukraine in prayer, I gave out a list of humanitarian aid organizations from a recommended source, now our UCC Church is joining its hands, hearts and voices in support. If you would like to add to this collective effort, you may donate here. Others have asked if there are Durham specific vigils we might attend. Our friends at Immaculata Catholic Church, along with other area churches, will be hosting a prayer vigil on Monday, March 14 at 7pm. For more information, please follow this link.

There is much more I could share about the weeks unfolding in Lent into Holy Week, but I will stop here because the plight of Ukraine deserves sacred space for us to pause, ponder and respond. I pray we do.

until Sunday,
Pastor Lindy (she/her)whypronouns matter

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