February 8 – The Space Between Us
A blessing is an encouragement, a healing, a comfort, or simply a loving kindness. It travels through the unknown space from one to another often through words, but sometimes through a gentle smile, a hot meal, a struggle for forgiveness, or by including the “other” into your life.

The retired Rev. Joan Montagnes is delighted to reside in Ontario again after 30 years of serving congregations in the United States. She received degrees in botany from the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta, and her MDiv. From Meadville/Lombard Theological School. Her connection to this congregation is three-fold. First, she was inspired to enter the ministry by the Rev. Mark DeWolfe; second, this congregation is the closest UU society to her home in Caledon East; and third, the Rev. Rita Capezi was on the Ministerial Search Committee that invited Joan to candidate for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo in 2015.