In My End is My Beginning  (03/09/24)

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope

For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith

But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

[For] the whole earth is our hospital

…Wherein, if we do well, we shall

Die.  In my end is my beginning.

(excerpt, World War II era poem “The Coker” 

from “The Four Quartets” by TS Elliott)

Since in its proper sense morning symbolizes the Lord, his Coming, and so the arrival of his kingdom, it also symbolizes the dawn of a new religion (the church being the Lord's kingdom on earth). This dawn occurs both in general and in particular, and even in specific detail: in general when some church is being revived on earth; in particular when an individual is reborn and becomes a new person. 

In such people the Lord's kingdom then dawns, and each of them becomes a church; in specific detail whenever love and faith have a good effect on this individual, because that is what the Lord's Coming consists in.

As a result, the Lord's resurrection on the third day in the morning (Mark 16:2, 9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1) involves all these meanings. It even involves the particular and specific ones, since he rises again in the minds of regenerate people daily and in fact from moment to moment.  (Swedenborg, Secrets of Heaven #2405)

Announcements (For: 03/10/24)

Special Spaghetti Lunch (3/10) 
Our own treasurer extraordinaire, Bill Smith is contributing his special spaghetti for lunch on this day in Fellowship Hall!  Join us (or miss out)!  

Choose Joy @ Tucson Festival of Books (3/9, 3/10)

Choose Joy Now and Frank Rose will be coming to you live at the Tucson Festival of Books! Come check us out Saturday March 9th and Sunday March 10th from 9:30-5:30pm at BOOTH #179 across from the Student Union and right across from the Food Court on the U of A Mall. We will be featuring spirituality and nature with Choose Joy card decks, books and free small group sign ups as well as Frank Rose's entire catalog of flower and plant books and cards detailing the all the flora of the Catalina Mountains. We look forward to seeing you!

Church Work Party

We are proposing a Church Work Party to clean up our property and space (in preparation for our Easter gathering at the end of the month).  We are scheduling this for March 23rd, from 9-12am. Join us!  

Easter Season Event (3/31/24):  We will host the public dedication of our Family Activity Center and our Easter celebration (featuring a potluck and then egg hunt for families) on the same day! 

A Special Visit (04/21/24):  We will host Jane Enis and Rev. David Roth over this weekend for a visit from our denomination.  They will be introducing to us the "Church Revitalization" initiative, of which we hope to be a part (as a pilot project) and will learn about what makes life work at Sunrise Chapel, attending our meetings and gatherings over the weekend.  We look forward to introducing our congregation, and joining this effort!

"Off the Left Eye" Class (03/05/24):

Class will resume this week on Tuesday March 12th at 1pm in the Chapel, with Sue Carr.  The subject: "A Part Of Our Mind Only God Can Reach!" 

BLESSINGS ON YOUR WEEKEND!  

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