12 Step Recovery Service this Sunday

Our next 12 step recovery service is this Sunday, January 20th at 2:00 PM.

The 12 step recovery service combines the 12 steps with a Communion service. (Non-alcoholic wine is used.) It is a chance for mutual support and to work the 11^th step:

Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

The service is ecumenical—open to people of any denomination or no denomination. Church of the Holy Communion is an Episcopal Church, where we invite all baptized people to receive Communion.
The service is open—families and friends are welcome to attend. It is not affiliated with AA or NA. People working any recovery program are invited.
Church of the Holy Communion is located at 118 North Minnesota Avenue in St. Peter. For more information contact The Rev. Tom Harries, 507-934-2542, PastorTom@HolyCommunionStPeter.org

Musings triggered by Quarks

There's an old, tongue in cheek idea that I first heard in relation to Dante's Inferno. What if hell as we envision it now, didn't exist until Dante imagined it, at which point, God made it so?

This month's (Nov. 2021) Scientific American contains an article titled "The Inner Life of Quarks: What if the smallest bits of matter actually harbor an undiscovered world of particles?" Chemists and physicists of the early 19th century thought atoms were indivisible, but in the 20th century they were found to be composed of even smaller entities: electrons, neutrons, and protons. Nothing could be smaller that that, could it? But yes. We now know these particles are made of still smaller ones. Most recently physicists thought that the smallest, indivisible particles were quarks and leptons. But now, Dr. Lincoln and others suggest they may be made up of still more miniscule particles.

I don't really believe this is the case, but it makes me smile to think that, just possibly, God is playing with us. Not as in trying to test our faith or anything like that, but as in having fun. What if God is engaged in a creative dance with some of our best and most determined researchers? What if each time they burst open and describe one group of "indivisible" particles, God lays down another one, like another geo-cache waiting to be discovered?