Water in the Wilderness Blog

Sunday Morning Worship June 14, 2020 by Senior Minister Dan Smith Holy One, Spirit of Love and Life, where do we begin in our prayers to you on this Sabbath day? Our hearts are overflowing, God, yet we know you…

Join us for a walk at Mt Auburn Cemetery, for reflection and prayer about what the practice of confession might teach us in this season. Questions we will explore together: What would it mean for our practice of confession, if…

As soon as we heard that singing together is considered a high risk activity, we started brainstorming. As someone who views singing as a way we experience God in the world I was eager to find a way to create…

As protests continue across the country many of us are looking for ways to participate and support this effort. If you can’t protest for any reason- if you have a chronic medical condition or need to be focusing on homeschooling…

This past Sunday we gathered as a church community on zoom for a virtual coffee hour to process all that is happening in our country. Jean Dany, our poet in residence, offered a recitation on his haiku poem “No Room…

I started this embroidery project weeks ago in an attempt to ground myself in something speaking words of hope for the world when I couldn’t quite muster them myself. I grew tired of it and it’s been sitting on my…

is a question I have asked myself often as we continue to absorb the effects of living through a worldwide pandemic. Lately, there seems to be so much of it, so much to lament and to process. It feels like…

Wishing everyone a Happy Mother’s Day! Today we celebrate all who have nurtured and loved others into being in their midst and we also pray for all who are having a difficult day this year. We offer a blessing now……

A word about writing as a spiritual practice by Krysia Burnham, a member of First Church in Cambridge and a hospice chaplain. Ever since the cave paintings at Lascaux, humans have told their story, in pictures and—as soon as alphabets…