As Geoff mentioned in the welcome and many of you already know, this has been quite a week since we were last in this room. I’m grateful for so many within our congregation for the ways you have enabled us to open our spaces to our friends from Beth Israel this weekend. As many of us have said over the past two days, while we of course grieve the event that has caused Beth Israel to be displaced, we are honored that they are here with us and look forward to the ways our common life will unfold in the coming months.

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr tells the story of Marie-Laure, a French girl, and Werner, a German boy, whose lives and worlds collide amid the calamity of World War II.

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If we read them as a whole, our three lectionary passages this morning come together as a meditation on the miracle and mystery of joy in 3 Acts.

They shall beat their swords into plowshares,