Click here to enjoy a blog post by Ellen Schroeder , originally published on the Presbytery of Giddings Lovejoy’s website. It describes Ellen's experience of Forest Park as a sacred place.

Mike Willock writes: I was struck by the opening lines of the October 18 worship service. "It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.” - C. S. Lewis At the end of the Forest Park prayer service on October 11, my eye was caught by flashes of magenta in the grass at my feet, lit by the setting sun. I bent down and took this picture. You can see that each tiny bloom on its little stem is smaller than your little finger, and you have to look closely to see its structure and the delicate shading of its color. It reminded me of a spirituality class exercise taught years ago at Todd Hall by Rev. Belden Lane. Belden is an honorably retired PC(USA) pastor who usually sits in the front row of the east transept at Second. After lunch, the class was asked to walk outside and spend about 30 minutes looking for signs of God. My first sighting was a flower blooming in the decaying cen...

  On a recent Sunday, with near perfect fall weather,  2PC held three simultaneous outdoor church services at various locations, including this one in Forest Park (pictured above) and Tower Grove Park (below). This Sunday - Sept. 27 at 5 p.m. - there will be another evening prayer service but with a single location. Folks will gather at the top of Shakespeare Glen, near the Art Museum, and continue to do each Sunday evening for as long as the weather allows. Seating is socially distant and a combination of Forest Park's picnic tables and lawn chairs that people brought from home. Hope to see you there. And let's pray this beautiful fall weather continues for a few more weeks...