As I celebrate another year making it to 51 years old, the First Presbyterian Church in Lowville, which I affectionately call, "my church", is gearing up to celebrate 200 years in July! In this world of impermenace this is cause for celebration on both accounts.
As I look around me, I am in reverance for that which surrounds me the most, which is Everlasting Love. I chose to take a picture of my Birthday flowers for this entry, but I could have taken any picture that surrounds me, be it a person, animal, tree, bird, or book. As I look around me, my cup of Joy runneth over for everything. I am reverant because I love and am loved.
I have come to know many people throughout my lifetime in this community and some of the people at First Presbyterian Church in Lowville have seen me through many times. Sometimes at my best, sometimes at my worst, and sometimes struggling just to hang on to something solid and a tangible expression of hope in a collapsable world. I have shown vulnerabiltity and I do not regret it, because this is how we grow with one another in faith and in love.
In loving people wholeheartedly I have risked connection. I have reconciled family relationships, and I show up on the page everyday full knowing that there is someone who wants me to "be there". Just like a tree that breathes a sigh of relief that it still stands, so do I, and so does the church. I am grateful and thankful that I am living, breathing, and open to tell the tale another day. Inch by inch, frame by frame, present moment to moment. We are all in this together, as imperfect as we all are, we can choose everyday to love one another which makes us all beautiful in the divine light of one another's eyes.
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