Harmony Note Mid-May 2025
Lilacs adding color and fragrance to the atmosphere, flowers blooming adding their distinctive colors to the landscape as fields of corn and beans are slowly making progress, begging for refreshing rain. Pastures are dotted with a new crop of calves as the cycle of nature and nurture repeats itself in another spring season. We are blessed.
Fresh asparagus and rhubarb are timely tasty treats as wildflowers add their subtle beauty to the changing landscape.
While planting is a top priority, for many families it is also graduation season, from pre-school to Advanced College Degrees. It is a well deserved recognition of accomplishments, and for many, the beginning of another new chapter in their book of life. Congratulations to all, and blessings as you turn the page to begin the next chapter.
In this season of new beginnings, our friends in the Catholic faith have elected a new leader, Pope Leo XIV. We wish him well as he begins this new chapter in his life and the life of the Catholic Church. He is both a continuation of Pope Francis focus on the poor and needy and embraces Jesus’ love for the “Last, the Least and the Lost.” We wish him well as he assumes this mantle of leadership.
Finally, as the month of May closes, we pause on Memorial Day to honor those who gave the last full measure of devotion for their Country, for us. Across America, in cities and towns and rural hamlets, in Cemeteries large and small, we will honor them. Harmony Cemetery will honor our dead at 1 PM on May 26, 2025 with a brief ceremony recognizing their sacrifice. Please mark it on your calendar and join us as we honor them.
Blessings and Peace, and Love,
Pastor Dave