April 3, 2024

Are you growing weary with focus on decline and fears? Celebrate some wins instead of wearying worries. Be intentional to focus on lifting up successes and meaningful connections with people. Keep making spiritual growth your intentional priority individually and collectively.  Stay committed to loving God through loving people. How are all the ways you loved people today? This week? We know loneliness is a mental health crisis. Strike up conversations at your local coffee shop, favourite restaurant, lobby of your apartment building, with someone out for a walk in the neighbourhood, an employee where you work or are getting goods or services. What stories did you hear? How did it make you feel? Imagine every team or committee meeting, each gathering celebrating howe we are loving people and how we can do it even better?  Open meetings with spiritual focus and sharing. A few stories shared won’t alone transform your church, but is part of your transforming! How can we offer renewed community, friendships, relationship building opportunities? Who in our wider neighbourhoods can help us connect with more people to love and more neighbourhoods to improve?  Talk to other places of worship, points of interest and potential community partners and see how you might help each other. Promote each other’s activities and keep drawing the circle wider.