Dear Gentle Folks, As our Lenten season begins, we are reminded that these next 6 weeks we are called to reflect on our faith, celebrate our blessings and spend time renewing and rededicating our lives to God. I have included daily readings from the “Revised Common Lectionary” put together by Vanderbilt Divinity Library. Lenten Daily […]
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Meditation: God has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8) Meditative Prayer: O Loving Creator of the universe, Blessed are all who put their trust in You! They bless the
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Meditation So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us?
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Meditation When I call, give me answers. God, take my side!Once, in a tight place, you gave me room;Now I’m in trouble again: grace me! hear me!You rabble—how long do I put up with your scorn?How long will you lust after lies?How long will you live crazed by illusion?Look at this: lookWho got picked by
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Dear Eternal Mother (or Father),How does your peaceableness manifestIn sentiment, thought, deed, and spoken word?Across these aspects of existenceWhich peace-building arts would you instructMe in? A person’s haste I recompenseWith deference, a person’s anger IToil to reward with calm compassion.Yet, how shall I respond to arrogance,Cold ridicule, or power-lust-propelledBrutality? (Any suggestions here? I’m not quite
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By definition love is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. Love is a concept that everyone knows about. How would you feel if all of a sudden your right to love was taken away? Empty? Alone? This is how approximately 8.8 million people feel all the time. Gay marriage is a touchy subject
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Come! Let us walk in the light of God! In this way the prophet Isaiah encouraged the Jewish nation thousands of years ago to find the light of God’s love and to claim it and to walk in it. Today we mark two occasions that require us, too, to walk in the light of God.
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There was a business consultant who decided to landscape his grounds. He hired a woman with a doctorate in horticulture who was extremely knowledgeable. Because the business consultant was very busy and traveled a lot, he kept emphasizing to her the need to create his garden in a way that would require little or no
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