by Rachel Carey-Harper | Jan 21, 2025 | Meetinghouse Floor
What Do We Do When Evil Wins? In the depths of my hopelessness and despair following the election, the existential question for me was: “What do we do when evil wins?” Gradually, what got me out of bed was that I can and should prioritize helping and...
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Jan 16, 2025 | Meetinghouse Floor
Beyond the Beyond As scientists gaze at the stars using more and more sophisticated equipment, they come to realize that beyond the farthest star are whole universes and beyond that more beyond. Just so, as we turn our eyes to heaven in prayer or close them to look...
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Jan 9, 2025 | Meetinghouse Floor
Vessels of Light and Peace Sometimes it feels like the world is fracturing into billions of pieces. There are disasters at home and work and difficulties with those we love and care for and ourselves. Through it all, we can rest assured that God is with us, even...
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Jan 2, 2025 | Meetinghouse Floor
Patience and Fortitude I recently listened to a story to help me fall asleep. It was about a person who dreams they are visiting the main library in New York City. Out front of this library are two larger-than-life stone lions, one named Patience and the other...
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Dec 27, 2024 | Meetinghouse Floor
Searching for Treasure What does it mean to be searching for treasure? If you ask people what is it that they were hoping to find, what the word “treasure” means to them, the primary definition and what many people would probably answer would be something connoting...