November 16, 2025
Service: Otherwise: Remembering What Might Not Have Been
Day and Time
Sunday Nov 16, 10:30 AM - Friday Nov 28, 11:30 AMDetails
Our All-Generations service
Carolyn Bjerke, minister & MaryBeth East, worship associate
Inspired by Jane Kenyon’s poem Otherwise and recent reflections from psychologist Ozan Varol, this service turns gratitude on its side: what if we gave thanks not only for what we have, but for all that might never have been? What if gratitude included the roads we didn’t take, the sorrows that shaped us, and the resilience that carried us here? Together we’ll explore how this deeper gratitude, tender, honest, and hard-won can open us to compassion for ourselves and the world.