Acts 2 in Edmond, OK

A Reading & Reflection from Madelyn Thane:
This weekend, I have the privilege of joining many of you to build beds with Sleep in Heavenly Peace for children in the Oklahoma City metro area who do not have a bed of their own. Because of our church’s extraordinary generosity, more than sixty children will soon have a warm bed to call their own. Whether or not you can join us to build, you can participate through prayer. Pray for the hands preparing these beds, for the homes that will receive them, and especially for the children who will sleep in them. Each child is known to God by name, precious beyond measure, and worthy of comfort and belonging.

A Reading & Reflection from Morgan Jones:
This week, a phrase from one of Sunday’s worship songs has been repeating in my head. The refrain from “Come As You Are” includes the line: Earth has no sorrow that heaven can’t heal. It got me to thinking about all the sorrow we carry at any given point in time. Over the weekend, we recognized the lives of those who passed within the last year, and held their families in our prayers. As we moved towards the election, I think many of us were carrying a sorrow about the state of division in our world. As we come out of the election, there are folks celebrating, but there are also folks mourning that their preferred candidate or party did not win the election. As we look ahead to the holidays, we mourn the absence of loved ones—whether it be through distance or death.

A Reading & Reflection from Rev. Brandon Blacksten:
As we wake up today, the elections are over. The votes are being counted. Some races may have been called, and some may be too close to call. By the time you read this, we may or may not know who will control Congress for the next two years. However we may feel about the outcomes of the elections, we still have to choose to step forward into a new day. We have to decide how we are going to live together now that the campaigns have ended. We have to answer the question of who we choose to be in this moment. Dr. Margaret Wheatley asks the question this way: