Reflection
Click to hear this audio reflection from Rev. Jeremy. The text is available below if the audio is inaccessible to you.
Grace usually starts with just one word, reveals itself in one smile,
sometimes a lonely daisy in
a splash of light on the rocky path.
It shows forth in laundry hung neatly across a balcony, It reflects in hands steadily kneading dough.
It seeps out when you pour tea for a friend,
It shows in a drop of blood from the prick of a needle, And when you knit a cap for a newborn babe,
Or when you sew a button on the burial shirt of a partner. It comes with immense fatigue in the evening
after a day of toil bringing water from the well.
Grace seldom comes from the events we call “grand” – Grace is found in the tiny things,
As if someone might be building a swallow’s nest out of clumps of passing moments.”
Utterly Ordinary Revelations by Anna Kamienska, 20th-century Polish poet
Action
- Read the kiosk’s story of the Sonic Blooms, and try your luck at getting them to sing to you (in our experience, it’s more luck than skill to get the motion detectors to notice you!).
- After you’ve pondered these blooms long enough, it is time to walk away. As you travel back to the beginning point of our walk, take out your headphones and put your phone in your pocket. Make eye contact and smile (or nod) to folks that you see, or perhaps say hello and connect with them with your voice.
Questions to ponder or to journal
How does it feel to make a fleeting connection? What does that small act of grace, acknowledging their humanity, evoke in you?
Walk to First Church
Walk west from the Blooms between the Pacific Science Center on your left and the Chihuly Garden on your right. Keep going all the way to the 2nd Avenue street, turn left. Cross the 4 way stop to the west side of the street and follow along until you reach the church driveway again right before Denny Way.