“Listening to our Lives” – February 15, 2026

Rev. Sophia preaching, with Kyle Belmont, Charlyn Bethell, Michael Collins, Jean Gauthier, Guy Urban, and our hospice choir, Hand in Hand. 

How do we know what path we are meant to take in life? What does it feel like to know we are on the right, or wrong, path? Some refer to questions like these as ‘discerning a call,’ which requires listening to our lives.  Let’s reflect on what this means and consider how to better listen to our lives. Heed the call and come to church!

Reading: “Calling,” by Nancy Shaffer

When you heard that voice and knew finally it called for you
and what it was saying—where were you?

Were you in the shower,
wet and soapy, or chopping cabbage
late for dinner?

Were you planting radish
seeds or seeking one lost sock? Maybe
wiping handprints off a window
or coaxing words into a sentence.
Or coming upon a hyacinth or one last No. 

Where were you when you heard that ancient
voice, and did Yes get born right then
and did you weep? Had it called you since
before you even were, and when you
knew that, did your joy escape all holding?
Where were you when you heard that
calling voice, and how, in that moment,
did you mark it? How, ever after,
are you changed?

Tell us, please, all you can about that voice.
Teach us how to listen, how to hear.

Teach us all you can of saying Yes.