Trinity Lutheran Church

Starting the week can feel heavy. Sometimes guilt makes us pause, holding us back from the care and compassion that’s waiting for us. Is your guilt shaping how you see yourself — or others? Is it pushing you toward excuses instead of openness?

This week, let God’s compassion guide you. Receive the freedom, grace, and care offered, and let it shape the way you relate to yourself and others. Step into the week knowing that nothing can separate you from God’s love ✨

Weekend wrap up at TLC! Thank you to Diane, our Spiritual Director, for leading us in worship this weekend! Between the beautiful sunlight and finger lights, Sunday morning was extra bright ✨

In Sunday School, our middle kiddos explored what love looks like through the story of the Good Samaritan — talking about kindness, helping others, and having some fun with crafts and cookie decorating. Older students focused on the Great Commandment: loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and loving your neighbor as yourself.

Our littlest learners talked about the storm and how Jesus brings peace — reminding us that He is always there to say, “Peace, be still.” We also learned about the sower and how we are called to spread God’s word, trusting that many seeds will land in good soil. To celebrate, we planted flowers and are hoping to see them grow! 🌱

How are you — really? This season, we’re practicing compassion by slowing down and making space for one another. If your heart is feeling full, tender, tired, hopeful, or somewhere in between, you’re not alone.
We care about what you’re carrying. If there’s something you’d like prayer for—or a joy you’d love to share—we’d be honored to pray with you and celebrate alongside you.

Drop a ❤️, send a message, or reach out however feels right. Compassion begins by noticing, listening, and holding space for one another.

𝓣𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓭𝓪𝔂’𝓼 𝓔𝓷𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓭: 𝓒𝓸𝓶𝓹𝓪𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓮𝓼

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝑅𝓊𝓉𝒽 𝒾𝓈 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒮𝒸𝓇𝒾𝓅𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒’𝓈 𝓂𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝒶𝓊𝓉𝒾𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝑒𝓍𝒶𝓂𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒾𝓃 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃. 𝐼𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓅𝑒𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒷𝓎 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝓇 𝓅𝑜𝓈𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒷𝓎 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝒹𝒶𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓉𝒽𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈 — 𝒷𝓎 𝓅𝑒𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝑒𝒶𝓈𝒾𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓃 𝒶𝓌𝒶𝓎.

𝑅𝓊𝓉𝒽’𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓂𝒾𝓉𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒩𝒶𝑜𝓂𝒾. 𝒜𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓁𝑜𝓈𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓉𝓎, 𝑅𝓊𝓉𝒽 𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓊𝓈𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝒷𝒶𝓃𝒹𝑜𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇-𝒾𝓃-𝓁𝒶𝓌, 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒾𝓃𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝒶 𝓅𝒶𝓉𝒽 𝓂𝒶𝓇𝓀𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝓎 𝓁𝑜𝓎𝒶𝓁𝓉𝓎, 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅. 𝐻𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓅𝑜𝑒𝓉𝒾𝒸; 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝓋𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓈𝒶𝒸𝓇𝒾𝒻𝒾𝒸𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓈𝓉. 𝒞𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃, 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎, 𝒾𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒶𝒷𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉 — 𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓌𝓈 𝓊𝓅 𝒾𝓃 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝒾𝒸𝑒𝓈.

𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝑒𝓉 𝒷𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇. 𝐵𝑜𝒶𝓏 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒾𝒸𝑒𝓈 𝑅𝓊𝓉𝒽. 𝐻𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓉𝑒𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝒽𝑒𝓇, 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓋𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝑒𝓇, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝓈 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒹𝒾𝑔𝓃𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓋𝓊𝓁𝓃𝑒𝓇𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝒶𝓈𝒾𝓁𝓎 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓀𝑒𝒹. 𝐻𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒹𝑒𝑒𝓅𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝑔𝑒𝓃𝑒𝓇𝑜𝓈𝒾𝓉𝓎; 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓇𝑒𝓋𝑒𝒶𝓁 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓇𝑜𝑜𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓉𝒽. 𝒯𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝐵𝑜𝒶𝓏, 𝒢𝑜𝒹’𝓈 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒶𝓃𝑔𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒, 𝑜𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝒶𝒻𝑒𝓉𝓎, 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓋𝒾𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑜𝓉𝒽 𝑅𝓊𝓉𝒽 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒩𝒶𝑜𝓂𝒾.

𝒲𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓊𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓁𝒹𝓈 𝓃𝑒𝓍𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 — 𝒾𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒶 𝓂𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝓁𝒶𝓇𝑔𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎. 𝐼𝓃 𝐵𝑒𝓉𝒽𝓁𝑒𝒽𝑒𝓂, 𝒶 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓂𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝓌𝒾𝓈𝑒 𝒻𝒶𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎, 𝑅𝓊𝓉𝒽 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐵𝑜𝒶𝓏 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒦𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒟𝒶𝓋𝒾𝒹. 𝒢𝑒𝓃𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇, 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓈𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓌𝑒𝓁𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝒾𝓇𝓉𝒽 𝑜𝒻 𝒥𝑒𝓈𝓊𝓈. 𝒞𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃, 𝑜𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝑒𝓉𝓁𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓉𝒽𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁𝓎, 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝓌𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝓈𝒶𝓁𝓋𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒾𝓉𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻.

𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈. 𝐼𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝓎𝑜𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉. 𝐼𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝑒𝓈 𝒹𝒾𝑔𝓃𝒾𝓉𝓎. 𝐼𝓉 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓈 𝓈𝓅𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝑜𝓅𝑒. 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒢𝑜𝒹.

𝐼𝓃 𝒥𝑒𝓈𝓊𝓈, 𝓌𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓇𝑒𝓋𝑒𝒶𝓁𝑒𝒹. 𝒯𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒, 𝒹𝑒𝒶𝓉𝒽, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓊𝓇𝓇𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃, 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒾𝓉𝓎 — 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝒾𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓃𝑒𝒹, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝒾𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓃. 𝒢𝑜𝒹’𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓈𝒾𝓂𝓅𝓁𝓎 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒾𝒸𝑒 𝓈𝓊𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔; 𝒾𝓉 𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒾𝓉, 𝒷𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓇𝑒𝒹𝑒𝓂𝓅𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃. 𝒜𝓈 𝒮𝒸𝓇𝒾𝓅𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝓂𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝓊𝓈, “𝒢𝑜𝒹 𝓈𝑜 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒽𝑒 𝑔𝒶𝓋𝑒…” — 𝒶 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓃𝓊𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓅𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜𝒹𝒶𝓎.

𝒜𝓈 𝓌𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝑜𝓃 𝑅𝓊𝓉𝒽’𝓈 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎, 𝓌𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝓃𝓋𝒾𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓌𝓈 𝓊𝓅 𝒾𝓃 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝓁𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓈. 𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓂𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓌𝑒 𝒷𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒾𝒸𝑒 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝒶𝓇𝑔𝒾𝓃𝓈? 𝒯𝑜 𝑜𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝑒𝓍𝓅𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃? 𝒯𝑜 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒷𝑒 𝓊𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑔𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝓌𝑒 𝒾𝓂𝒶𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑒?

𝑀𝒶𝓎 𝓌𝑒 𝒷𝑒 𝓅𝑒𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓈𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 — 𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒶𝒹𝓎, 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓉𝒽𝒻𝓊𝓁, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑔𝓇𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 — 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒢𝑜𝒹 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝒶𝓉 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓀, 𝒷𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑔𝓇𝒶𝒸𝑒.

𝒫𝓇𝒶𝓎𝑒𝓇: 𝒢𝑜𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃, 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃𝓀 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝓋𝑒𝒶𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝑜𝓇𝒹𝒾𝓃𝒶𝓇𝓎 𝓅𝑒𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝒹𝒶𝓎 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝒾𝒸𝑒𝓈. 𝐻𝑒𝓁𝓅 𝓊𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒾𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹, 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝒸𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓈—𝒾𝓃𝒸𝓁𝓊𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝑜𝓌𝓃. 𝒜𝓂𝑒𝓃.