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Featured Volunteer: Steve Jones

My feelings about cooking for the Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa food for the shelterless group run deep and with a lot of gratitude. Having to back away due to the Coronavirus has been very difficult for me as I get so much joy from the service we do. Cooking is fun for me, and I know that I can do a lot to help out. 
Taking the time to go to the food bank and pick up food because I have a truck is just another opportunity to be in service. The place is just a mass of human movement, striving together to get food to all those in need in our community! Our little group when it started and the St. Vincent kitchen was so much fun. With all the wonderful donations we received through the community during the Joe Rodota trail time, it was simply amazing what great meals we were able to provide for the people.

We all came together every week to work, to make a ton of good food in high spirits. When the virus hit, we all hung in there and kept it going, and so many of you are still at it. I hope to rejoin all of you when the time is right as when I took the leave of absence from cooking, and it was not an easy decision for me. 

I think about all of you every Friday, as that was my time to be with you. I do miss seeing everyone at services, and I miss not being able to be in service with the music even more, and most of all, miss my hugs while greeting everyone. Cooking was a way to know that there is good in the world, and my personal experience being a part of the CSL cooking team lives on in my heart, and I am going to be back very soon.

I'm sending all the love I can muster in this time of chaos and ongoing suffering in our community!

Steve Jones
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