A Word from George – Senior Pastor 

Pastor's reflection….

I read a comment attributed to movie star Sean Penn that resonates with my unease with and revulsion to the suggestion that everything has an answer and can be clearly defined.He said, "When everything gets answered, it's fake.The mystery is the truth." (Entertainment Weekly – February 6, 2004)

Be wary of people and movements that suggest they have all the answers.Life, with all its twists and turns, is a profound and always interesting experience.We cannot always find answers to questions like why someone loves us, why good people suffer, or what we could have/should have done in any given circumstance.Still, we go on living and never back off doing what we know to be right, like loving the neighbors God brings into our experience.

A great theologian once observed that "only God is eternally interesting."I believe that is so, in part, because we can never completely figure God out.Imagine, God loves us and there is nothing we can do about it!When we don't lose sight of the truth that the "us" is everyone from St. Theresa of Calcutta to the most notorious terrorist then we find ourselves face-to-face with a mystery!

Trust the mystery of God.Trust the mystery of doing God's good will by loving our neighbor as much as we love ourselves.We can't fully explain either, but living into these mysteries brings us life to the fullest and that, dear friend, is mystery too.

Grace and Peace,

Pastor George