Our Beloved Home September & October 2011

If you missed church on September 18th, we continued our exploration of home and radical hospitality and were called to worship by the words of Mary Oliver:

Red Bird

Red bird came all winter

firing up the landscape

as nothing else could.

Of course I love the sparrows,

those dun-colored darlings,

so hungry and so many.

I am a God-fearing feeder of birds.

I know He has many children,

not all of them bold in spirit.

Still, for whatever reason -

perhaps because the winter is so long

and the sky so black-blue,

or perhaps because the heart narrows

as often as it opens -

I am grateful

that red bird comes all winter

firing up the landscape

as nothing else can do.

To learn more about our exploration of narrowing and opening the heart read an excerpt of the Morning Message by clicking on the Beloved Community page to your left