[Parish] A Scout is Reverent

[Malcolm Young]

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
 
I have received some wonderful emails this week asking about Scout Sunday on March 7.  First of all, Scout Sunday is for both boy scouts and girl scouts.  Everyone who has a uniform should wear it.
 
Second, it is very important for us to attend the pancake breakfast at 9:00 a.m.  This is an opportunity for us to have fellowship with each other and to support our troop.
 
Finally, if you have some suggestions about what it means to say as part of the Scout Law, that a scout is reverent, that would be helpful to me as I try to prepare a sermon that is appropriate to this occasion.
 
I hope you are all well today.  The wildflowers seem like they are at their peak as the next storm gathers strength.
 
Below are a few lines about flowers from one of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Sonnets to Orpheus”
 
Love,
 
Malcolm
 
“See the flowers, faithful to what is earthly,
to whom we lend fate from the border of fate, -
yet who knows!  If they regret their wilting,
it is for us to be their regret.
 
All things want to float.  And we go about like weights,
lay our self upon everything, delighted with gravity;
O what wearing teachers we are for things,
while they succeed at eternal childhood…”