Dear St. George’s Community,

Blessings to you as the season changes. In the church year we are still in the (very long) season after Pentecost, that lasts from late spring until Advent. In our worship practice we divide that season into summer, Season of Creation, and the season of Thanksgiving and Remembrance each with different worship elements and themes. Harvest Thanksgiving marks the start of this more somber time where we notice the world around us moving from the abundance of harvest into a time of letting go and resting in sacred darkness and dormancy.

Celebrating Harvest Thanksgiving a little more than a week after the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation reminds us to be careful; in a world where there is so much inequity and in a church with a colonial past and legacy, when we celebrate those things that we are thankful for, we must remember that the One who loves us wants good things for all God’s children and not just a few. And we must work together to bring such a world about.

In thanksgiving for all of you and the gifts that you bring and are,

Rev. Laurel