Message from the Pastor, September 2025

Dear Friends,

Although my children are grown, it is ingrained in me to link the cooler September temps and breezes with the “return” to work and school, entering into a busier time as summer winds down. Always I feel a mix of excitement for the “new season” as well as a tinge of sadness for the freer days of summer! I hope and pray that however your summer unfolded, you have found moments of rest and rejuvenation, and much blessing.

We have many events to celebrate this accelerated energy of September, such as our Welcome Back Sunday with All-Church Picnic on Sunday, September 7, and Founders Day Weekend from Friday, September 19 – Sunday, September 21 filling our church park and downtown Lee with a parade, race, youth events at the Athletic field, live music and vendors in our church park, the Taste of Lee, and fireworks and more! Our church is a sponsor and participant throughout that weekend, offering tours of our church and especially capping off the festivities by our Founders Day Meeting House Dinner on Saturday, September 20th 5:30pm! I look forward to being with you for many of these things.

I invite you to enter these energized and busy days with a promise to yourselves to breathe deeply and remember to stop often for moments of quiet reflection, observing of autumn beauty, whispers of gratitude. There is much to savor and hold in our hearts during this time.

As you see, hear, taste, smell and feel this changing season, I share with you now these words from Psalm 19:

Psalm 19:1-4

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.
3 They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice[b] goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.

This fall, let our God speak to you without words through the creation that sings around you - that your heart and spirit may be filled and comforted.

Blessings to you all,

Pastor Marisa