“For All That is Our Life” – February 22, 2026 

Rev. Sophia preaching, with Kyle Belmont, Charlyn Bethell, Holly Cachimuel, Patti Rae Miliotis, Missy Shay, and Guy Urban.
This Sunday we will close out our month’s theme of Embodiment by learning about the life-giving practices of sacred rest and Sabbath-keeping–for who among us isn’t exhausted these days? We will also hear Pattie Rae’s heartfelt testimony about why she gives to this church and sing a beautiful hymn of praise and thanks for all that is our life. Choose to slow down and celebrate rest and renewal with us–come to church! See you Sunday.

Reading: Some Days by Philip Terman

Some days you have to turn off the news
and listen to the bird or truck
or the neighbor screaming out her life.
You have to close all the books and open
all the windows so that whatever swirls
inside can leave and whatever flutters
against the glass can enter. Some days
you have to unplug the phone and step
out to the porch and rock all afternoon
and allow the sun to tell you what to do.
The whole day has to lie ahead of you
like railroad tracks that drift off into gravel.
Some days you have to walk down the wooden
staircase through the evening fog to the river,
where the peach roses are closing,
sit on the grassy bank and wait for the two geese.