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Beloveds,
As spring awakens the grounds around the congregation, let us be awakened as well—not rushing past what is emerging, but pausing long enough to notice it.
The small greening at the edges. The quiet return of color. The subtle shifts that happen day by day, often without announcement.
In community, we are turning gently—but intentionally—toward awakening curiosity. Not the surface kind of curiosity that simply gathers information or entertains us for a moment. But the deeper kind. The kind that asks something of us. The kind that opens us—sometimes uncomfortably—into new ways of seeing, feeling, and being.
Let us lean in to a spiritual practice of witness, truly seeing with open eyes. Allowing ourselves to risk not turning away. Being vulnerable instead, because it invites us to encounter the world—and ourselves—as they really are.
This is the kind of curiosity that transforms.
In worship this month, we will be tending both our spiritual practice and our emotional access—because curiosity lives at the intersection of those two things. It is not only something we think; it is something we feel. It is the quiet tilt of the heart that says, “What else is true?” It is the willingness to stay present when we would rather turn away. It is the courage to ask a question and not rush to answer it.
We live in a world that rewards certainty, speed, and sharp conclusions. But our faith calls us somewhere different. It calls us into a way of being that honors mystery, that makes room for not knowing, that trusts that questions themselves can be sacred companions.
Might you embrace this month’s spiritual practice with a newness, a beginner’s mind?
Might we practice noticing what we have overlooked?
Might we practice listening for stories we have not yet heard?
Might we practice approaching one another—and even ourselves—with a curiosity that is kind rather than judgmental?
And might we also practice something quieter, but just as powerful:
Allowing curiosity to lead us into the newly awakening world around us.
Into the small, daily unfoldings we might otherwise miss.
Into what is blooming—not just in gardens and trees—but in our lives, in our relationships, in this community, from day to day.
Curiosity invites us to pause long enough to notice:
What is opening?
What is softening?
What is becoming possible that was not before?
And then to ask—gently, honestly—
What might this be teaching me?
What is this moment asking of me?
Because curiosity, at its best, is not about mastering the world.
It is about being open enough to be changed by it.
And that kind of change does not happen at a distance. It requires us to stay open—to wonder, to discomfort, to possibility, to one another.
My hope is that this month you will seek space—not to have everything figured out—but to feel a little more alive inside the questions. To trust that even in uncertainty, something sacred is unfolding.
As we move through these weeks together, may we remember:
We are a community of seekers.
We do not have all the answers—and we do not need to.
What we have is one another.
What we have is the courage to keep asking.
And that is enough to begin.
As you reflect, I also invite you to listen to this month’s music, curated to accompany our theme of Awakening Curiosity:
Click HERE (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7lyJOADL1BGLRkUsDMZTN0) for the Spotify playlist
Click HERE (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvXOKgOQVYP5kn3HyVYHGuECb-sArn-Xu) for the YouTube playlist
With care,
Rev. Christe
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