Two Fifty

 Two-fifty

Years ago, there was a church here,

and a community who built it:

faithful, determined, dedicated,

withstanding wars and chaos,

trusting in God and in each other.

 

So much has changed:

our world, our worship, our very language. 

Together, we speak to God

with a different music, and come  

with different expectations

of church , of community—

of our place in this complex world.

We have been profoundly changed  

and the world itself is changed by us.

But our God is a constant—

a loving, merciful lodestar

in the whirling chaos we inhabit.

He hears our prayers— 

and answers them. 

as he always has.

We trust in his goodness,

we trust in each other. 

 

Today, there is a church here,

and there is a community as before, building it,

nurturing it, through times of trial,

holding fast to that with which we started

two and a half centuries ago..