This morning we had our annual parish meeting, where we elected new members to our Vestry, reviewed the past year and looked ahead to what’s next. This was my third annual meeting here, the second on Zoom. We might feel all kinds of discouraged, but there is so much great stuff happening - new life emerging despite the pandemic and its many ups and downs.
After my heart was appropriately filled through worship and the meeting, by seeing those (mostly) smiling faces and conveying and hearing (mostly) good news, I headed to the shore for a reset.
As I returned home, this beauty alit and just rested. And I breathed in and out and watched as it just sat there. (Do butterflies sit?) How apt that a symbol of new life, of transformation and resurrection, would visit me today, filling my heart even more.
I am so grateful to be where I am, doing what I do, with the people I do it with. I wonder what we will be talking about at next year’s annual meeting. What new life will we see? What will be transformed, and how?
Where are you seeing signs of transformation and new life?