“On Center” – December 7, 2025

Rev. Sophia preaching, with Kyle Belmont, Charlyn Bethell, Jean Gauthier, Carrie Miller, and Guy Urban.

Let’s consider the nature of Awe, which is our month’s theme. When have you experienced it? How did it feel? What in your lives changed as a result? Mysticism, which is at the heart of this season, is also at the heart of Awe–maybe this makes mystics of us all! Let’s come together and explore some of these questions together. As the days grow cold and dark, this is no time to isolate or flit away. Come to church and fill your cup with some hope and awe. See you Sunday!

Reading: The Well, by David Whyte

But the miracle had come simply
from allowing yourself to know
that this time you had found it,
that some stranger appearing
from far inside you, had decided
not to walk past it anymore; 
the miracle had come in the kneeling
to drink and the prayer you said,
and the first tears you shed
and the memories you held
and the realization that in this silence
you no longer had to keep
your eyes and ears averted
from the place that could save you,
and that you had the strength
at last to let go of that thirsty,
unhappy, dust laden
pilgrim-self that brought you here,
walking with her bent back,
her bowed head
and her careful explanations.

No, the miracle had already happened
before you stood up, shook off the dust
and walked along the road beyond the well,
out of the desert and on, toward the mountain,
as if home again, as if you deserved
everything you had loved all along, as if just
remembering the taste of that clear cool
spring could lift up your face
to the morning light and set you free.