We attended our last Thursday night choir rehearsal for the "season" tonight. We will, of course, rehearse on Sunday mornings for the next two weeks --- and we will enjoy the "time off" and the opportunity to share the pews with you all. Of course I will miss those of you who attend the 8:30 service --- it seems so early since I have been retired.

And with the changing season, our lives change once again. This one is summer --- and kids and teachers are released from their schools --- many to summer jobs. Some to solitary times, for which some are grateful and others are not. It represents a wonderful change of diet for many of us: grilled meats; sweet, white corn; Vidalia onions; and, "real" tomatoes. For others in our country it is a time only of harvesting or preparing foods for others.

For our brothers and sisters at Oecumenique in Congo, it will be winter (the dry season) with little rain and temperatures below 90. They will eat bidea rolled in casaba greens if they are lucky. for others, it will be the usual hunger of all seasons --- but they can sit outside and have God's light into the later hours. For which many are grateful.

It will be summer in the Mam Presbytery in Guatemala with fresh vegetables for the fortunate and the hope of a good corn harvest for the tortillas of the coming year. They will spread their harvest on the flat roofs of their homes and three times per day, the women will grind it to feed their families.

Let us never forget the hungry of this world --- and the lonely. My God, my God, why have you given me so much and others so little? There must be a reason!

Ndi Sally, muanenu muKlisto.

(I am Sally, your sister in Christ)

Sally

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