Mary Wellemeyer

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Pilgrims and yaks walk the Tibetan Buddhist "kora," or pilgrimage.

It’s a pilgrimage, like a trek around Mount Kailash, or perhaps Bodh Gaya, but it’s life itself, the whole thing, every moment. On the high passes of Mount Kailash, pilgrims hope for a kind of death, a rebirth of spirit, and it’s not a bad thing to go there, do that, if time and money allow.

Meditation | By Mary Wellemeyer | May 13, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Awe, Beauty, Birth, Challenge, Death, Journey, Wonder

It’s hard to believe it is finished. She was so full of life and fun until just before the end— keeping track of people, enjoying the outdoors, caring for family, all of it. Something came for her. She did not want to go. She denied the summons, fighting this final truth of her life. We did not...

Meditation | By Mary Wellemeyer | May 13, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Acceptance, Calling, Death, Ending, Letting Go, Peace, Sadness, Transcendence
Photo of bowl of brussel sprouts.

In one church it was meals, prepared and frozen to be shared with those in need. Food was handed out at the door, or taken to where it was needed. In another church it was casseroles, brought to families whose strength was consumed by illness or disaster....

Meditation | By Mary Wellemeyer | May 13, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Activism, Caring, Community, Food, Food Justice, Generosity, Service

Like those shepherds who were on the hillsides with their flocks, like those wise ones in their observatories with their telescopes and astronomical charts, we find our daily work interrupted by these holidays. Like them, we can’t keep on working, we have to listen to singing angels, we have to...

Meditation | By Mary Wellemeyer | May 13, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Advent, Awe, Beginnings, Calling, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Journey, Searching, Vision, Work

Note: Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) 2016 begins in the evening of Wednesday, May 4 and ends in the evening of Thursday, May 5. This week holds the annual observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah. Jewish communities prefer not to call the dreadful events of the 1930's and...

Ritual | By Mary Wellemeyer | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Grief, Holocaust Remembrance / Yom Ha'Shoah, Hope, Human Rights, Judaism, Responsibility, Suffering

Bob and Addie Polk had moved into the neighborhood in 1970, when the little houses were relatively new, and through the years they had been friendly with the neighbors. After her husband died, Addie kept more to herself, increasingly limited by declining health in older age....

Sermon | By Mary Wellemeyer | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Courage, Despair, Direct Experience, Discernment, Money

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