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MONDAY MORNING

"Your beauty and love chase after me every day of my life..." Psalm 23:6 | The Message

This week we are:

Celebrating ….

Hosting a small wedding reception last Friday at Anna's Teahouse - pictured top left and center;
15 staff members from the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust - breaking for lunch, pictured above top right - during their strategic planning retreat in the Ingalls Creek Lodge.
Work on the pavilion roof went smoothly, completed just prior to our heavy weekend rain.

Working ….

Quarterly staff retreat taking place today;
Welcoming guests in the Woodland Chalet beginning on Thursday.

Praying ….

The Ingalls Creek quarterly prayer gathering takes place tonight on Zoom at 6:30pm. Please join us!
The annual fall Pastors Wellness retreat begins this upcoming Sunday p.m.

This week's quotation and question for response:

Quotation:

"When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

~ Poem by Wendell Berry (from The Peace of Wild Things and Other Poems) shared with me by a ministry friend.

Question:

Have you recently experienced the grace of God in the physical beauty and stillness of the world?

Grace & Peace,

Doug