"I wish it need not have happened in my time, " said Frodo. "So do I, " Said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times, But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

The Bile calls us to a faith of connecting. Connecting to God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And connecting us to one another.

Jesus invites us to put our concerns and burdens on Him and offers us rest.

Rebuilding one's spiritual altar requires a conscious return to authentic worship, prayer, and personal integrity. As believers, let us intentionally restore and prioritize our personal relationship with God amidst life's daily distractions, so that we may remain steadfast in our faith.

Jesus heals us in unexpected ways - not always the way we pray or the way we think we need healing. Speaker Debbie Cato

Guest speaker Maria KulpFar from shielding us from loneliness, the gospel promises instead offer us a God who has inhabited that same interior desolation, whose solidarity with human suffering is total and embodied. In Christ, our loneliness is neither solved nor explained away, but redeemed by being drawn into a unity that encompasses all of creation.

Nothing can separate us from love.

Love, not knowledge, is the measure of mature faith and the true builder of the church.

Love creates a community for the world

Love is "being with."