Look at Jesus; hear the story;
Probe the purpose of his life;
See the struggle and the glory,
All the conflict, all the strife.
I was . . . suddenly so uncomfortable with the words I have always known to say during communion
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God is a verb
Living within you and me
Fleshing our flesh
Rejoicing our joy
Crying our sorrow
And empowering us to swim upstream.
Eggs won’t stick on my magic frying pans
Spots won’t grow on my wonder-creamed hands
1 The roots of decency spread deep in the earth of Goodness, and no turmoil can disturb them.
2 In the eyes of the selfish, the upright appear to be unhinged; their humility is seen as weakness,
There once was an extraordinary young man
born in Nazareth centuries before
airplanes, cars, or computers
but a man in many ways similar
to you and I.
Boundless love in all creation,
Source and pulse of human life,
Unseen hope of every nation,
Healer of disease and strife;
1. Without an overview of the Bible it is very easy to gain an erroneous impression of what the Bible is all about.
2. Look behind the words to the people.
Good Shepherd,
We are a small flock of Your disciples meeting here in this little room. We come with our questions, our doubts and suspicions, our fears and worries. We come with a hunger to know the truth.
1. Every tear is a womb which can birth new life.
2. Grief is the narrow passage through which we pass from death to life.
They’re carted off like cattle,
yet we’d refuse a bed
to those who flee from carnage
now drowned, or lost or dead?
Some leaves in winter dangle on
Though wrinkled, fragile, old
Stubborn leaves that flinch on empty trees
Through cruel storms in damning cold
Nothing lasts forever in the same form.
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Romance is only healthy within the context of our love for life, for the mystery, for the divine.
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Buried in every beginning is an ending.
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