The clean-up meeting went pretty well last night. It was a sobering and difficult experience, but it had to be done.
So now I'm off to speak at the midday service--and the focus of the scripture is rainbows...!! I'm going to enjoy this. If I had created the bulletin, I would have used the image I use for my profile--the swirling rainbow with a cross.
My message is that the rainbow, with all its colours, is a symbol of God's all-embracing and unconditional love, as is the cross. As we begin Lent, the cross seems far away; the rainbow is present as a reminder of whose we are and the love God has for us. The rainbow and the cross--both symbols of God's unconditional love for us.
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Yesterday I got a catalog from A Greater Gift/SERRV (the URL is escaping me now)-- great Fair Trade goods catalog -- and in it was a beautiful translucent rainbow shawl made in Mexico. There was a little blurb on the page about what the rainbow means to the indigneous craftspeople who weave these shawls. I thought of you, and I also thought, "There ought to be some kind of liturgical use for that." LOL
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There's nothing like a rainbow!
Oh, and I used my rainbow stole yesterday for the Anglicans, too--and they loved it!
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