gratitude

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." - Meister Eckhart. 

Friends, we have much to be grateful for - from the air we breathe, to those around us. This year I am indeed thankful for you all - and Watershed, and First Presbyterian. Many blessings this week to you all, and hope to see you for the beginning of Advent this sunday.  peace, Rob

350: climate change and the church

Come this Thursday at 7pm at Andover-Newton Theological school to hear Bill McKibben speak about the church's roll regarding climate change and his 350 Project. Let's carpool.

“350 is the red line for human beings, the most important number on the planet. The most recent science tells us that unless we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, we will cause huge and irreversible damage to the earth.
We’re planning an international campaign to unite the world around the number 350, and we need your help. We need to make sure that the solutions the world proposes to climate change are to scale with the level of crisis that this number represents. Everyone on earth, from the smallest village to the cushiest corner office, needs to know what 350 means. The movement to spread that number needs to be beautiful, creative, and unstoppable.”

what a week!

It's been an historic week my friends! Let us give thanks for a peaceful election, and pray for our new president elect Barack, and his family - and for the hope and challenges that lie ahead. May we all be willing to work hard to live out these ideals of hope and change. As we do so, we remember it all begins with loving our neighbor - in the PLACES and communities in which we are situated. And we are hear in Waltham - at First Presbyterian. With this in mind, we remind you that tonight at Watershed (11/9), we'll celebrate Stewardship Sunday where we get to dedicate the pledges for 2009 that we feel called to make to help support the ministry of this particular community of faith. Oh, and we may hear something from Bono as well...