Events

Join Rev. Rebecca and FRS members and friends in a community reading of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address. We will have a community read of the Thanksgiving Prayer followed by a reflection from Rev. Rebecca. The Thanksgiving Prayer is traditionally used to welcome a new day. We hold this reading at a time near sunset to remind ourselves that the sun will rise again. Retaining our feelings of gratitude and connection to the natural world is essential for every one of us and for the collective wellbeing of this planet. All ages and guests are welcome. “You can’t listen to the Thanksgiving Address without feeling wealthy. And, while expressing gratitude seems innocent enough, it is a revolutionary idea. In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. The Thanksgiving Address and gratitude doesn’t send you out shopping to find satisfaction; it comes as a gift rather than a commodity, subverting the foundation of the whole economy. That’s good medicine for land and people alike.” --Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants