Love That Heals All Wounds
When I say love, you can translate that into “life with God”. To me, love is where the temporal and the eternal meet.
Becca Stevens, Practically Divine
The Rev. Becca Stevens has spent her life exploring that sacred tension point where the temporal and eternal meet and found it to be what we think of as love. Yet, she hasn’t simply touched on that in sermons or theological inquiry; she has found evidence of that love in some most challenging and tender places, especially where women have emerged from lives of exploitation, addiction, trafficking, and extreme poverty. Miraculously, she has found this love – where the grace of the eternal meets the flesh-and-bone-reality – to be an infinite source of healing and renewal.
More than two decades ago, Becca founded Magdalene (later Thistle Farms) as a two-year residential program for women seeking to escape a life of addiction and prostitution. She didn’t just start a program; she started a movement of liberation and love that is not rooted in cities across the countries and countries around the world.
Becca and her companions joined us this past Wednesday for a community forum, and shared with the wider Cleveland and Diocesan community the story of how love is a healing force unlike anything else we can imagine. They return to Trinity Cathedral this Sunday morning, where she will preach at the 9am Abundant Table service and the 11:15 choral service, and join me for a special Trinity Forum between the two services.
Don’t miss this chance to engage with abundant grace and healing love – where the temporal and the eternal meet – here in the sacred space of Trinity Cathedral.
BJ+