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Jae said:
Get my feet wet Luce? I've both been sprinkled and immersed brother. That should be wet enough, don't you think? Have you been immersed Luce? Have you given such a public profession of your faith?
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What goes on between me and my God is sacred ... I share with only trusted friends who won't try and whitewash the we IDs ... adds to the nitpicking in the dark ... amusing those outside common fields of lies --- Trump is right into it! Doesn't know myth is a separate entity from that big lie ... resembles a parable used to test the love to see if there's a process hidden there ... often not is the caste ...
 
I finally attended my own church yesterday, and our minister was back from holidays. It was a small crowd, but with its usual buzz of friendliness. Our minister talked a lot about stewardship, although she didn't label it that. It was more about following God's will to get out and do things: Don't stay on the shore, but get in the boat! Or even ask for Jesus' help to step out onto the water. I feel like I've been in too many boats lately, so I had mixed feelings about the message. I'm trying to back out of some of my commitments...But maybe this message really was for me: Stay in the boat, forget about running to the shore.
 
I still like the skipping from rock to rock just under the surface ...

Allows for some of those old anchoring hymns and subtle support systems ... unseen by those in the glare off the water ... they could sink ... fall a' sea?

Great puddles hang up in depression Eire types ... rule of archetypes ...
 
Thanks Luc. I like the image of skipping from rock to rock just under the surface...better than staying in one place, that's for sure! And...uses our own energy with a lot of support!
 
I'm excited.

We had a young woman attend this morning with her mother who is in town to see the grandmother.

Afterwards this young woman came up to me with one of our chorus books wondering if she could buy it and if so how much it might cost. I told her that they weren't for sale and we have surplus so she could take that one home with her if she wished. She seemed amazed by that response.

"Do you talk about grace and forgiveness here?" She asked.

'Quite a bit, yes." I replied.

At that she turned to her mother who still seemed puzzled that she wanted our chorus book and asked if they could come again next Sunday.

Mom replied, "We won't be here next Sunday." Which provoked a disappointment response that I clearly read because I have two daughters about that age.

So I said, "Take your bulletin with you and if you look here on the back page you will find my e-mail address. Any questions you have about grace or forgiveness can be sent to me and I will respond to them right away.." That appeared to be a happy solution. She told me her name and now I wait for an e-mail.

And yes, I'm hopeful that there will be one.
 
revjohn said:
I'm excited.

We had a young woman attend this morning with her mother who is in town to see the grandmother.

Afterwards this young woman came up to me with one of our chorus books wondering if she could buy it and if so how much it might cost. I told her that they weren't for sale and we have surplus so she could take that one home with her if she wished. She seemed amazed by that response.

"Do you talk about grace and forgiveness here?" She asked.

'Quite a bit, yes." I replied.

At that she turned to her mother who still seemed puzzled that she wanted our chorus book and asked if they could come again next Sunday.

Mom replied, "We won't be here next Sunday." Which provoked a disappointment response that I clearly read because I have two daughters about that age.

So I said, "Take your bulletin with you and if you look here on the back page you will find my e-mail address. Any questions you have about grace or forgiveness can be sent to me and I will respond to them right away.." That appeared to be a happy solution. She told me her name and now I wait for an e-mail.

And yes, I'm hopeful that there will be one.
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Ah the beauty of an open question ... and the beginning of the hajji ... or Tale'n along with Chaucer if you will ... pilgrims? Some never wander of the straight and narrow and miss the chance to encounter the great weaver ... with all the misty stitches!
 
Today's sermon was by Nancy Cheagus and was speaking of the spiritual practice of journalling. Sounds interesting, but I'm thinking would be something that would work better in retirement when I will have more time on my hands. Or maybe worth trying in winter when I'm not out on my bike everyday. Offeratory hymn was Let it Be by the Beatles. A good tune to have running through my head as I face returning to work tomorrow. :)
 
Again I was away from my home church, doing pulpit supply at a two point charge north of the city - actually the larger church is in the area where I grew up and near the regional school where I attended high-school. Several in the congregation were people I've known, but only one who I've maintained contact with, since childhood. I was a bit like coming home.

I spoke on the Matthew reading about the Canaanite woman who argued with Jesus when he refused to respond to her plea for healing for her daughter, and how he changed his mind - and how that might have influenced his ministry to be more accepting and inclusive. And I said that the difficult and uncertain times we are living through may require us to change our minds about ideas and values that we have always believed. It was well accepted.
 
WE had a sermon based on the questionable correctness of polity and politic in church as it seems almost impossible to avoid unless you're dead to soul ...

Seems to me there are some biblical references to the Walking Dead ... so many questions so few rational answers with the disposition towards opinion and emotional response ... intellect being lesser and perhaps the basis of BH ... a' void in the cosmos? Like a' theist out there watching ... more of the departed environment ... driving powerful (Judah-like) leaders off their edge ...
 
Seeler said:
Again I was away from my home church, doing pulpit supply at a two point charge north of the city - actually the larger church is in the area where I grew up and near the regional school where I attended high-school. Several in the congregation were people I've known, but only one who I've maintained contact with, since childhood. I was a bit like coming home.

I spoke on the Matthew reading about the Canaanite woman who argued with Jesus when he refused to respond to her plea for healing for her daughter, and how he changed his mind - and how that might have influenced his ministry to be more accepting and inclusive. And I said that the difficult and uncertain times we are living through may require us to change our minds about ideas and values that we have always believed. It was well accepted.
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Cana (old word for ego, echo, or reflection of dark nature) and nite as reference to the Skye woman that creeps up and steals thoughts .. perhaps rearranging them while you body parts are shadowed and the sol-spirit is off there journaling ... that's a Cananite ... dark lasses in the arid lands ... sometimes known as gnomons ... dark stand uppish items ... like a bed of nails ... onyx? Creates a dark gritty mirror ... excellent for AE Sops Fables ... a Sop once taken as something to soak up the primal stew ... of all that is stirred ... some isn't ... thus the farce IDe of the fable ...
 
I am often hesitant about whatever message I am delivering at a church that is not my own. Today, I was actually excited about the Moses-in-a-basket story. This is one of those times, however, that I got more out of the message than many in the congregation. I guess it happens sometimes. But, there was one Sunday School teacher who rarely gets a Sunday 'off' from teaching, but was in the congregation today. And I think she appreciated it when the message go around to: Sunday School teachers are my heroes. She seemed excited to share with me some of her teaching moments, which I enjoyed hearing about afterwards. So, even if the message resonates with only one person....I guess it wasn't a complete bust.
 
Really good church service today. Visited for the third time an evangelical church down on the Lakeshore. Yobo and Chungmoneem came with me. Wonderful music and warm, welcoming people. I really feel God blessed my sermon today which was based on 2 Chronicles 36:22-23. I preached using the fewest pages of notes that I have yet, 5. Many people said nice things afterward about my message, which focused on God's great mission of redemption. A nice lunch of pizza and homemade chocolate cake followed the service.
 
You just never know said:
Today's sermon was by Nancy Cheagus and was speaking of the spiritual practice of journalling. Sounds interesting, but I'm thinking would be something that would work better in retirement when I will have more time on my hands. Or maybe worth trying in winter when I'm not out on my bike everyday. Offeratory hymn was Let it Be by the Beatles. A good tune to have running through my head as I face returning to work tomorrow. :)
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Maybe this isn't the kind of journaling you heard about it church, but I thought I'd share anyway. I journal, but not every day...just once a week, usually Saturday morning. I now have a collection of journals dating back to before my 26 year old was born. I love reviewing them, and they stir up even more memories that photos. Maybe not a 'spiritual' journey, but good for my spirit nonetheless.
 
For today's benediction Rev. John told the entire congregation to, "Just go take a hike!" Ha ha ha, by the way, his sermon topic was the spiritual dimensions of hiking. Like Moses going up the mountain or how different religions are all following different paths up the spirituality mountain, but all ultimately end up meeting at the summit and meeting Creator. It was a good sermon, however, I'm not a literalist in my spiritual journey so instead of taking a hike I went for an 80km bike ride out onto the prairie east of town. Riding the flat prairie like hiking up a mountain has spiritual dimensions, provided of course, that you pay attention.
 
You just never know said:
For today's benediction Rev. John told the entire congregation to, "Just go take a hike!" Ha ha ha, by the way, his sermon topic was the spiritual dimensions of hiking. Like Moses going up the mountain or how different religions are all following different paths up the spirituality mountain, but all ultimately end up meeting at the summit and meeting Creator. It was a good sermon, however, I'm not a literalist in my spiritual journey so instead of taking a hike I went for an 80km bike ride out onto the prairie east of town. Riding the flat prairie like hiking up a mountain has spiritual dimensions, provided of course, that you pay attention.
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Been hiking (in the desert no less) a lot this past week and was on a long one this morning. Agree with your Rev that hiking has a spiritual dimension, about which I shall say more in coming days and weeks, but not sure I would spin it quite the way he did. I don't like the many paths up the mountain metaphor for one thing.
 
Will be good to hear your desert hiking stories. I did some hiking near Tucson many years ago in the desert. There is much there if you have the ability to notice it.
 
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