Dear First Church,
When I feel curious, I feel awake, playful, and interested. My mind is attentive and my heart is open.
How does curiosity make you feel? Where does it land in your body?
I enjoy being curious. It is a leading emotion for learning, wonder, and sometimes delight! Curiosity can lead to connection with other people, with animals, plants, even the land itself.
Has curiosity ever led you down a rabbit hole of discovery about an unknown-to-you community, place, or species? Curiosity opens us up to learn new things, which connects us to people and places in new ways.
Practicing curiosity can also awaken places within. It arrests boredom and awakens us to the pleasures of our own mind. Sometimes, if hope and joy are out of reach, curiosity can drive you out of despair and into a land of interest, if not happiness.
This month, we will follow our children and youth’s curiosity in our Faith Formation Sunday at 10 a.m. on Sunday May 17, followed by our 12 p.m. Annual Meeting—about which I am sure you are endlessly curious! With a potluck in between, it should be a delightful Sunday of community.
If you’re curious about how we are celebrating Alissa Rhode’s 20 years of service with First Church next year, see her column here: LINK.
In faith,
Rev. Jennifer Nordstrom
Senior Minister