Dear friends,
Attached to this e-mail you will find a script for this weekend's program. I hope you will take the time to read it not only so that you get a sense of the logistics that are suggested, but also so that you get a sense of the sweep of the story we tell in scripture, reflection, dance, and song. While many of the pieces we are singing will each have spiritual meaning to some of you on their own, I hope that you will find, as I do, that our music takes on a new dimension when we sense its place in communicating our journey. As we share the story in Dawn of Redeeming Grace, we first are reminded that God is present both in the darkness and the light as we move from our seemingly hopeless night to experience the dawn of God's gracious, clear, blue morning. Then we gather round the angelic holy light (lux) with Mary's boychild in that little town of Bethlehem. Then we journey with those three kings (and, metaphorically, with centuries of others!), following that bright morning star. We are still called to follow God's star and to be open to let its light shine in us-- even from the mountaintops-- to illuminate and radiate God's endless light in this world.
Thank you for sharing this journey with me and with one another. You are all incredible gifts of light to my life. Let it shine!
Grace and peace,
TT
