[Parish] GAIA, CSA, Exile

[Malcolm Young]

 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

 

Happy May Day!  This may be the most beautiful day of the year.  I hope you are outside enjoying it.  I plan to take apart this computer and put in a new hard drive - the thought petrifies me...  If you don't end up receiving much email from me for a while you'll know the reason.

 

Sunday we'll be learning more about GAIA - the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance, and celebrating their tenth anniversary.  We'll be honoring our own mothers by learning how we can support mothers in Africa.

 

Here's some news about CSA:

Christ Church collected 213 pounds of food for CSA 


in  April.  CSA was glad to have this food since it included quite a 

bit of pasta and some rice and they had none on their shelves.  For our May 

9 collection CSA would especially appreciate concentrating on these 

two items so lets make this a rice and pasta collection month.  Remember, 

there is a van parked in the upper parking lot, open to receive your donations 

just as you come down the sidewalk to the church.  It will be parked there 

at 8:30 to make it easier for those who attend the 8 and 9 o'clock services to 

deposit their food donations.

 

Here’s a poem about exile from Su Man Shu (tr. Ken Rexroth) to remind us how blessed we are to be home today. 
 
Exile in Japan
 
On the balcony of the tower
I play my flute and watch
The Spring rain.
I wonder
If I ever
Will go home and see
The tide bore
In Chekiang River again.
Straw sandals, an old
Begging bowl, nobody
Knows me.  On how many
Bridges have I trampled
The fallen cherry blossoms.
 
Love,
 
Malcolm