St Clair is… Presence

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Every fall we remind ourselves of what defines us as a community; what brings us together and what sends us out.  This week we talk about the value of Presence and how knowing nearness of God in our life and in the world changes who we are and how we live.

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Psalm 4

1 John 1:2

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Miroslav Volf

We are in a crisis: pandemic, racist violence, political uncertainty, cultural clashes, economic downturn. All this is exposing fragility of our lives and calls our way of life as individuals and society into question. The truth is we must be confronted with fragility and death to seek a more promising life. That’s Jesus: the healthy do not need – and do not seek - a doctor. We are sick and yet, faced with death, most of us crave not a new life, but the life we’ve always known, the very life whose cracks the crisis is exposing.

Dorothy Day

The greatest challenge of the day is how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?