Love One Another

October 29, 2018
Beloved:

            Love one another, Jesus said.   It’s everything.   It begins at home and then it goes next door.   I pray much love and peace for our precious neighbors at Congregation Beth Shalom in the wake of this weekend’s terror attack at the synagogue in Pittsburgh.

            My idea is to hang this banner on the bridge between our parking lots and fill it with notes of sympathy and love.   If you can’t get by to write a note yourself, email one to me and I’ll write it on the banner for you.  There are sharpies in the porch mailbox.  Like you, my heart is broken for our neighbors and how they must be suffering.  How do they explain such terror to their children, alongside such empty promises and lies from leadership too compromised to lead?

            A banner seems slightly absurd in the shadow of such atrocity.  But friendship isn’t.  Neighborliness and hospitality aren’t.  Solidarity, kindness and partnership in the work of justice are  not.  These tiny acts of human decency are all we have for debilitating hate.  In the meantime, do not fail to pray for peace with each and every breath.   

~ peace & prayers,
pastor annette