Signs of Life
First of all, it’s a Kids Table Sunday! Here’s the blurb from Amy about that:
See you sunday!
Amy
Secondly, we got the band back together! (Ok, that’s an oblique reference to The Blues Brothers. Humour me…). If you check in with our Facebook group once in a while, you may have seen Tim Penner’s post that he was in the middle of editing the music for tomorrow morning. We found a way to gather some of the musicians from The Table in the same room in a safely distanced manner to make music together – LIVE! It’s a bit painful to not have had the room full with the whole community, but we’re glad we can at least share a little snippet of what so many of us are looking forward to. Four familiar tunes, shot to video with a technical production budget of zero (it’s amazing what you can do with the stuff you already have and some willing and capable people!); something special for the occasion of Easter.
A overview of our morning format and schedule for this week, because it’s a bit different from what we usually do:
We’ll gather online at 10:45 a.m. for Community Time. I’ll host that live on our Facebook page. As noted above, the Kids Table story will be posted to Facebook as well, so you can access it whenever it works for your household.
Then, at 11:00 a.m., the pre-recorded “Signs of Life” gathering will go up on our Facebook page. You’ll also be able to find that one Youtube. We’ll put a link to that on the Facebook page once it’s posted.
Next, at 12:00 noon, The Kids Table Room hang out will happen, also on Facebook.
Then, at 12:30, “And Lunch After” will kick on on Zoom. Here’s the link for that gathering:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Lastly, a reminder that we also continue to host a zoom gathering on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. You can join that here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
And lastly, a short reflection on where I’ll be headed in our Talky Bit exploration:
I had the opportunity to enjoy a few hours outside yesterday, and was struck again by the remarkable ways in which the earth comes to life at this time of the year. Hmmm…maybe that sentence itself reveals a problematic perspective that can not only shrink our understanding of this remarkable planet on which we live, but also diminish the scope of our spirituality. The earth isn’t “coming to life” at this time of year at all. The “life” is always there. It’s just that it doesn’t always look that way. To put it another way, even when things appear to be dead, they aren’t. The thing we call “life” doesn’t arrive in spring; it just shows us a different, more obvious face.
In much of traditional Christianity, Easter can easily get treated like that smaller idea about spring. It gets treated like an either/or story about life and death. This Sunday, I’m going to share a contemporary resurrection parable that I hope can help us wider our perspective on some of those limitations.
I’ll see you on Sunday.