[Parish] Thoreau Book Talk

[Malcolm Young]

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I just got a note from our old organist Peter Stoltzfus who writes that the piece that he composed in honor of our Christ Church choir was very well received in Massachusetts where he played it on Sunday.

Our Pentecost here was amazing too.  The choir, Andy Ritger's saxophone, preacher John Buenz and our picnic cooks were great!  So many people came up to tell me that they feel the spirit moving strongly among us these days...

Tomorrow night (Tuesday May 25) at 7:30 p.m. I'll be giving a talk on my Thoreau book (The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau) at East West Bookstore (324 Castro Street in Mountain View).  It would be great to see you there if you are interested.  I have tried so hard to refrain from mentioning Thoreau in too many sermons and you might want to learn a little more about him.

May God bless you with a Pentecost awakening this week.  As Thoreau writes (below), this can happen anywhere...

Love,

Malcolm


"Any prospect of awakening or coming to life of a dead man makes indifferent all times and places…  Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are continually being executed. Next to us is not the workman we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are" (Walden, 134).