THIS WEEK @ FMC – November 29-December 5, 2023
“How Does a Weary World Rejoice?” (Advent 2023) (Written by the creators at A Sanctified Art) Joy is often a companion to many other emotions. We can feel joy in addition to feeling many other things at once: grief, anticipation, anxiety, excitement, disappointment, exhaustion. Perhaps many of us live with the myth that joy is […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – November 22, 2023
New every morning is your love, O Lord! Fresh your compassion daily dawns. New every morning is your mercy and grace; you are faithful you are strong. Lord, we thank you for this day! (text of a song written by Rory Noland) Thanksgiving is the theme of this week. While I value the invitation of […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – November 15-21, 2023
“It is lovely to know that we are a family united by the Spirit of God, and that despite being spread across the whole world, we can bring our petitions for one another before God,” says Samuel Martínez Leal, Iglesia Evangélica Menonita de El Salvador. This quote opens an email I received this week from […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – November 8-14, 2023
A Blessing … written by Jan Richardson (Voices Together #1049) Blessed be the ones who dance in the corridors of death, who sing in the hallways of terror, who laugh in the prisons of fear, who shout across the silencing walls, who love beyond the borders of hatred, who live to welcome home freedom, who […]
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