Re-membering and regathering!

September is upon us! Why that twinge? We are now a year-round congregation. Schools now reconvene in August. Many of our retirees think of September as the “travel month” because it is less crowded than July or August. And yet…

September for many of us is still a time of new beginnings. Those twelve years of new school beginnings imprinted this upon our brains. Communities such as ours think of launching anew in September.

We regather through our water service, the bringing and mingling of waters that signify our inner and outer journeys of the body, mind and spirit. With any event that happens only once a year, it becomes a marker against which we mark change. As we regather, we think of those whom we have lost to death and also those who just no longer attend on Sunday mornings, those who have moved onto other spiritual pursuits.

This is a good time to re-member, to bring back together those pieces of our whole. For our relationships with those who have died do not end–maybe you call someone else who may be missing them and share a memory. And not a bad time in your own life to re-member connections you may have let drop in the years through which we just past. Or a time to re-member by making new connections and forging new beginnings as perhaps you once aspired to do on your walk or ride to school.

As the song says “Try to remember and if you remember, then follow….”