“We Kindred Pilgrim Souls” – September 27, 2026

Rev. Sophia preaching, with Djalai Babazadeh, Rev. Kyle Belmont, Charlyn Bethell, and Guy Urban.

We will close out this month’s worship and faith exploration theme of ‘Beginnings’ by considering the spiritual challenges and gifts that being a ‘beginner’ invites us towards. We will also sing one of our faith’s favorite hymns, “Blue Boat Home,” which celebrates life’s mysterious path and those ‘kindred pilgrim souls’ who walk it with us. Let us come together to seek, find, and draw courage from church and one another.

Reading: “The Question,” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

All day, I replay these words:
Is this the path of love?
I think of them as I rise, as
I wake my children, as I wash dishes,
as I drive too close behind the slow
blue Subaru, Is this the path of love?
Think of these words as I stand in line
at the grocery store,
think of them as I sit on the couch
with my daughter. Amazing how
quickly six words become compass,
the new lens through which to see myself
in the world. I notice what the question is not.
Not, “Is this right?” Not,
“Is this wrong?” It just longs to know
how the action of existence
links us to the path to love.
And is it this? Is it this? All day,
I let myself be led by the question.
All day I let myself not be too certain
of the answer. Is it this?
Is this the path of love? I ask
as I wait for the next word to come.