Chaplain Michael Eselun - December 31, 2023
The Thread
"Popular guest speaker, church member, and oncology chaplain, Michael Eselun will reflect and explore the idea of a single thread that may run through our entire lives—what it takes to find it, what is our relationship to it, and how it just might help us make sense of the whole journey thus far. This will mark Michael’s 23rd time in our pulpit." Chaplain Michael Eselun, preaching. Chela Metzger, worship associate. Order of Service available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rro6wGcH2WtsGm7G-OvXzXFouxBAPOQkrxmGyauNJCY
From Monthly: "Mystery"
Let's consider that we live in a generous and grace-filled world of Mystery. "I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask, “Why are we here?” I might think about it a little bit, and if I can’t figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose – which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell." ~ Richard Feynman