This Sunday we welcome the Rev. Richard Witt, executive director of Rural and Migrant Ministry, as our preacher and forum leader. For 40 years, RMM has created hope, justice, and empowerment with farm working and rural families in New York by building community and developing leaders through advocacy, education and the arts. They are vitally involved in seeking justice for immigrants in these days. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear more about RMM’s work and how we can support and stand in solidarity with them.

In this week’s newsletter, Mother Liz shares a Thanksgiving reflection centered on a prayer from Diana Butler Bass’s Grateful: The Subversive Power of Giving Thanks. In times marked by uncertainty and division, the prayer calls us to choose gratitude deliberately—to recognize life, the earth, and one another as gifts of God’s love. Around our tables, we are invited to resist fear and anger, to keep love at the center, and to live in “a circle of gratitude.” May this Thanksgiving strengthen us in grace, generosity, and thanksgiving that transforms.

This week, Mother Liz writes on the Transgender Day of Remembrance, honoring the lives of transgender people lost to hatred and violence and calling us to build a world where all genders are celebrated as reflections of God’s boundless creativity. She shares a moving prayer from the Corrymeela Community that gives thanks for the diversity of human identity and laments the harm done through fear and division. Together, we pray for courage to protect every person’s dignity, to live authentically, and to love in the fullness of Christ.

This week, Mother Liz invites us to reflect on stewardship — not only of our parish and shared life, but of our gifts, stories, and the fragile earth itself. She shares a powerful poem by m jade kaiser, a blessing that calls us to discover our unique way of embodying divine love “in this groaning and gorgeous world.” Whether as healing, courage, solidarity, or joy, God’s invitation is always near: to live as conduits of eternal love, saying “yes” to the sacred possibility within and around us.