Dear Friends in Christ -
Every year I muddle through Halloween (a "holiday" I enjoyed as a child only for the dressing up part and as an adult only for getting together with our friends and the joy of seeing my kids enjoy dressing up), to get to All Saints Day.
All Saints Day is this time when I do three things:
1. Look around me and recognize the awesome-ness of the "living saints" I live with in my household and community day-in and day-out and
2. Hold in my heart the saints who I no longer see, remembering the uniquenss of their lives and feeling gratitude for what they gave to me.
3. Pray that I might live up to carrying on their example.
Today, we're going to gather as saints at St. Paul's, worshipping as we always do at 8:00 a.m., in the Church on the edge of the old graveyard, where the saints will be praying and singing with us especially on this day. Then at 10:00 a.m. we'll be gathering with the saints around the font, welcoming our newest saints to join us on the journey to heaven.
As the sun begins to warm the sky this morning, I think I hear the angels' song . . .
Faithfully,
Janet+
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