News from the Women's Fellowship

All women are invited to attend the annual potluck supper and auction. This event has been rescheduled for Wednesday, June 2 at 6:00. Bring your favorite dish to share and a little something for the auction. Since the Micah Circle will be having a yard sale on the Fourth of July to help with the church renovation, save your larger items for then.

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Greetings! As I write this reflection, the sun is shining. It’s a beautiful, ordinary late May day. We’ve come through some storms and a bout of oppressive heat, but it’s lovely outside. And our bustling-butstill- quiet Main Street looks ordinary, too. Extraordinarily lovely ... and ordinary.

I’ve been thinking about this notion of “ordinary” because we in the church have just entered the long season called Ordinary Time. Easter and its season are over, even the day of Pentecost has come and gone, and we’ve settled into that time when we have no more feasts or fast days until November.

And yet, there’s something very special about this time, too, in which we are all called to seek the sacred in the midst of the ordinary. Daniel Clendenin, who has a great blog called “Journey with Jesus,” shares this: “The Latina theologian María Isasi-Díaz describes this intersection of the sacred and the mundane, the unexpected and the unexceptional, as "the daily thing" or "sacred ordinariness" (lo cotidiano).”

I love the notion of recognizing the sacredness of that which is ordinary. Feast days and festivals, with all of their traditions, are fun indeed. But it seems to me that we’re called to live in the everyday world. “The daily world” is not something to be endured or escaped, but something to be lived in its entirety.

It is in the daily that we find our companions, our lovers, our friends. It is through the quiet steadiness of routine that miracles can happen. In the holy days, we celebrate the grand and unimaginable, but in Ordinary Time, we set about the job of recognizing that which is sacred in even the most ordinary of interactions.

Within the church community, the “ordinary” are our bread and butter. Each week in prayer and fellowship, we share with one another all that is ordinary in our lives: marriages and new babies, sicknesses and deaths, worries and celebrations. And in sharing it, we begin to notice the sacredness of the ordinary.

Most of you who read this right now probably think of yourselves as having fairly ordinary lives. We’d love to have you join us in worship. We’d love to share in your ordinary story and help you to celebrate that which is sacred in that ordinariness. Won’t you join us?
Susie

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"Upper Room" Available (Flame October, 2009 - Jane Cook)

The Women's Fellowship, which pays for the "Upper Room", a daily devotional guide, has decided to make it available to shut-ins. if you would like to make a delivery to one of our home-bound seniors, please pick up a copy on the back table in the Sanctuary, and deliver it to one of those people listed on the magazine cover. The visit will be appreciated. (back to top)

Click here to view the 2009 Fourth of July photos. (back to top)