June 14 – “There is a Crack in Everything: Innocence and Experience” by Rev Jeanne Elodie Montclair from Taos NM
We are born innocent and unbiased. Bias is learned, yet so too is empathy – if we and the world are lucky enough to have role models to show us the way. Growing up is a process of awakening and loss. Some losses bring wisdom, some bring pain, all can be transcended when we choose to leave behind our victim child self and jaded cynic and open our hearts to our true potential to be able to love and forgive ourselves and others with vastly different life experiences.
Hot on the heels of the Coronavirus lockdown where tensions have been running high and where we lost an innocence we didn’t know we had to lose our recent experiences sensitized us to freedoms curtailed. The recent protests triggered by the slow murder, in broad daylight, of George Floyd by those we assumed are paid to protect us has rocked us and the world at large as our sense of complacency is implicated in revealing us all as being complicit in racial discrimination unless and until we participate with our own voice, our conscious choices, to speak out in a multitude of ways to decry the discrimination and dehumanization upon which this country was founded and continues to perpetrate.
Black, Red, Yellow, Brown, White – are the simplified color codes for race. LGBQ and T are the simplified codes for those who love outside of the hetero norm. Women, girls, boys and even men too all have labels inherent in our patriarchal linguistic traditions, simplifications and stereotypes that demean and dehumanize. It is time to stop the subtle and slow murderous cruelty. It is time to claim our dignity and reclaim our hearts from the centuries of pain that now threaten to engulf.
Celebration starts at 10:30 a.m. This will be another virtual celebration, so look for the link toward the end of the week in the Pebble Announcements and on the home page of the PebbleHillChurch.org website.
June 21 – “Father’s Day” with a nod to the Summer Solstice! Rev. Larry Hall will lead.
Bring a photo of your father to share. Share a memory, too. Calling in of the ancestors. Blessing our fathers. Celebration starts at 10:30 a.m. This will be another virtual celebration, so look for the link toward the end of the week in the Pebble Announcements and on the home page of the PebbleHillChurch.org website.
June 28 – Gratitude Sunday: Our thanks for still being alive! Rev. Dave Perkins will lead.
Pebble suspended meetings in the Red Barn as of March 15, approximately 3 months and 2 weeks ago. What’s your personal highlight of those fourteen weeks? A gulf is spreading between “before” and “after.” What will the new normal look like? Celebration starts at 10:30 a.m. This will be another virtual celebration, so look for the link toward the end of the week in the Pebble Announcements and on the home page of the PebbleHillChurch.org website.
