Greetings from Greyson

Hello Pilgrims! 

Thank you to everyone who has added to our Wonder Board, located in the Fellowship Hall by the coffee window. It’s been a joy to read what has brought wonder to our community. Responses have included: Rocks tell amazing stories; my garden; the beach; the splendor of the universe; and that “our HUGE universe is EXPANDING!!!”

To reflect on one of these wonders, I will share that I took a geology class as my science credit in undergrad at NC State. There, I learned that rocks do indeed tell amazing stories. They can tell us more about Creation beyond what we see today, a history “set in stone” of now-extinct creatures, wildfires and hurricanes, long lost rivers, and the ways ancient humans lived. Rocks connect us to our past, and one day will communicate our present to future generations. For something inanimate to hold such records of the Spirit of Life is truly a thing of wonder.

As we turn towards Pentecost this Sunday, we hear of the passion, the joy, the fire, and the wind found in the Acts reading. It’s a story of great movement. Watching this scene, we may become aware of the stiffness of our own bodies, the tension in our shoulders and jaws, maybe an awkwardness in not remembering how to join in the dance. But we can take a lesson from the wonders of our rocks: There is no particular way we have to show up, no particular words to speak, no particular beliefs to hold.

Like the rocks of the Earth, by the simple virtue of existing, the Spirit meets us and impresses upon us. As each rock tells a story of the world, the Spirit empowers each of us to tell our story and wraps our stories into God’s ongoing story in our HUGE EXPANDING universe.

Thank you to those who have contributed to the Wonder Board, and keep it coming!

Greyson