Resilience & Potluck
Our theme for February is Resilience.
Resilience is the ability to
recover from difficult
experiences and setbacks, to
adapt, move forward and
sometimes experience
growth. It is a necessary skill
for coping with life's obstacles
and one of the key ingredients
to success.
Sunday, February 12th Service:
Joshua Berg's sermon on
resilience begins with
contemplating the challenges
and hardships his
great-grandfather must have
endured to cross the ocean
and make a life in a land he
knew nothing about. He
focuses on the lives of
persons of color such as
Edmonia (wildfire) Lewis -- a
renowned sculptress, born at
the beginning of Jim Crow of
a black African father and
Mississauga ojibwe or
chippewa Indigenous
American mother. And John
Lewis -- brutally beaten during
the march over the Edmund
Pettus bridge in Selma,
Alabama and later to become
a U.S. Congressman.
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