Borrowed from Shannan Martin’s book by the same name: In the context of community, how can we not only learn how to develop and value our own counterweights, but also learn the stories of other people’s counterweights? How are others finding joy during trying and stressful times? How can we better share our own stories of both hope and stress, good and bad, while also learning the same stories from others? Read more about the series here.  You can find the order of worship here.

A word from the artist, Kasper Smuts: My idea was to make a happy forest and a sad person. Since our theme for the summer is Counterweights, I felt that this was a very clear way to illustrate it. I chose brighter colors for the river, forest, and sky; and darker colors for the person.