Entries from August 2009

Good News, 08.27.09

Date August 29, 2009

Friends:
It’s not enough to have lived.  We should be determined to live for something.  May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of humankind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely?  Leo Buscaglia
Health Care Dialogue: We will meet again this Sunday right after [...]

Good News, 08.20.09

Date August 20, 2009

Friends:
Wisdom asks:  Who is Simple?  Come this way. - Proverbs 9
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. - Rumi
Wonderful blessings were received through Amar and Sybomar Khalsa this past Sunday.  Chanting, breathing, singing, praying - just as our Ephesians text encouraged.  It is profound how spiritual centering and [...]

Good News, 08.14.09

Date August 14, 2009

Friends:
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.         Mary Oliver

Our thanks to Jean Sylwanowicz and Jeanie Locklear for assisting Achi Ben Shalom this past Sunday. What a [...]

Good News, 08.04.09

Date August 4, 2009

Friends:
“If we want to learn to ‘thank’ aright we must ‘think’ about the miracle of life that is happening to us.  For thinking and thanking belong together.  Both are worship and they cannot be separted.  Both are an exercise everyday.”  Helmut Thielecke
Achi ben Shalom will contribute Israeli music and songs to our worship this Sunday.  [...]