Pastor’s Corner – June 9, 2024

Dear Beloved,

Do you have a favorite color or colors?  If so, why do you enjoy or connect with them?  I would be excited to hear or read if you are comfortable sharing with me.  Mindful that everyone experiences what is taken in from our varied senses differently, please feel free to think of or share a favorite smell or sound if that is more helpful, meaningful, or enjoyable for you.  

Back in 2009 a book called Praying in Colors by Sybil MacBeth came out.  I passed it along before having a chance to read it.  I don’t know exactly what the book recommends, but I had used colors as a way to guide prayers before - giving thanks for things of each different color that came to mind or that I saw around me.  It is a practice that has been meaningful to me at different times for many years.

 During shelter in place, colors became even more important to me during a zoom Treasure Seekers time when I asked the children what color they were feeling.  One of the children said, “I feel a rainbow because I feel lots of different emotions.”  That has remained with me and guided me since covid.  Inspired by these words, I thought it might be fun to explore colors as a spiritual practice with you during pastor paragraphs.  I hope you’ll enjoy this journey of colors together.  May God’s beautiful rainbow of colors remind us that we are never alone.  God is faithful.  God set a bow in the sky to remind us that nothing can separate us from the steadfast love of our Creator, Deliverer, and Guide.  As you experience the different colors or flavors or sounds of smells of summer, may you always know you are a loved child of God with God-given gifts to offer for the growing of God’s beloved community of comprehensive well-being for all.  

 With gratitude and hope,

 Sarah 

Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, “As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark. I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth. ”God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” (Genesis 9:8-16)