Saturday, October 31, 2020

October Twenty-Twenty

 

“O extravagant God, in this ripening, red-tinged autumn, waken in me a sense of joy in just being alive, joy for nothing in general except everything in particular; joy in sun and rain mating with earth to birth a harvest; joy in soft light through shyly disrobing trees; joy in acolyte moon setting halos around processing clouds; joy in the beating of a thousand wings mysteriously knowing which way is warm; joy in wagging tails and kids’ smiles and in this spunky old city; joy in the taste of bread and wine, the smell of dawn, a touch, a song, a presence; joy in having what I cannot live without — other people to hold and cry and laugh with joy in love, in you; and that all at first and last is grace.”              
—Ted Loder, Guerrillas of Grace



Annual Pumpkin Patch Visit

Senior Picture Sneak Peek 

AP Photography Photo Shoot 







Anna's 2020 Half Marathon 



Happy Halloween 2020! 



“Eternal Friend, grant me an ease to breathe deeply of this moment, this light,
this miracle of now. Beneath the din and fury of great movements and harsh news and urgent crises, make me attentive still to good news, to small occasions, and the grace of what is possible for me to be, to do, to give, to receive, that I may miss neither my neighbor’s gift nor my enemy’s need. Precious Lord, grant me a sense of humor that adds perspective to compassion, gratitude that adds persistence to courage, quietness of spirit that adds irrepressibility to hope, openness of mind that adds surprise to joy; that with gladness of heart I may link arm and aim with the One who saw signs of your kingdom in salt and yeast, pearls and seeds, travelers and tax collectors, sowers and harlots, foreigners and fishermen, and open my eyes with these signs and my ears with the summons to follow to something more of justice and joy.” —Ted Loder, Guerrillas of Grace




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