FOREST LAKE TALKS

Choose Love!

Dear Friends, While the Buddhist Monks from Fort Worth, Texas were walking through South Carolina calling for peace this weekend, a 19-year-old man was busy breaking into the Beth Israel Congregation, in Jackson, Mississippi, to set fires and desecrate that historic Jewish place of worship. Two Torah scrolls were destroyed,...

Gentleness

Dear Friends, The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years Day feel a bit like summer to me. The regular schedule changes, and we either have lots more to do, or nothing at all. That is the gift of the holiday season for those of us who normally have too much...

Getting to the Manger!

Dear Friends, How is your journey towards the manger going? Throughout Advent, we have held up the theme – “All is not Calm: Getting to the Manger” – to invite us all to move intentionally towards Christ and a way of living in the world that reflects the light and...

While We are Waiting, Come!

Dear Friends, I heard a story this week from a new member of FLPC whose son and his new wife were not able to come home this Thanksgiving. She is a Marine, and he is an ER Nurse. They could not come home this Thanksgiving because they both had to...