Welcome to Ascension!
Welcome to the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, a community of Christians who care for each other, nurture our children and serve our community as apostles of Christ.
Our dream for this parish is that we will become a place where each one of us lives out our Baptismal Covenant at home, at work, and in the community. We intend to shine as though we were God's only light in the world, and we pray that our children, and their children after them, will yearn to carry on Christ's work.
Please join us in following God's call. We welcome all people, whoever you are, and wherever you might be in your spiritual journey.
Meditation of the Week
Alphabet of Grace
Life itself can be thought of as an alphabet by which God graciously makes known God’s presence and purpose and power among us. Like the Hebrew alphabet, the alphabet of grace has no vowels, and in that sense God’s words to us are always veiled, subtle, cryptic, so that it is left to us to delve their meaning, to fill in the vowels, for ourselves by means of all the faith and imagination we can muster. God speaks to us in such a way, presumably, not because God chooses to be obscure but because, unlike a dictionary word whose meaning is fixed, the meaning of an incarnate word is the meaning it has for the one it is spoken to, the meaning that becomes clear and effective in our lives only when we ferret it out for ourselves.
~ from Listening To Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner, 1992.
What word is God speaking to you? What meaning does this incarnate word have for you in your life?
