Friends: “A person has no alternative but to respond to the real setting in which one finds oneself, with a  result that one’s prayer is necessarily fabricated from the various inner and outward components of one’s life….prayer grows out of life.  It is not an isolated  department of life, it is the realization of the [...]

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Friends: Integrating Healing into a Parish:  I believe that grace’s empowerment is present in all true healings, in deliverance of all kinds, and in any movement toward wholeness and love and freedom, however great or small.  It is present in physical and psychological healing, in social and political reconciliation, in cultural and scientific breakthrough, in [...]

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Friends: “Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”  (Martin Luther King) Bible 365 concludes this Sunday and Pr. Elizabeth will be our preacher.  Her homily theme will be:  “Why I am still a devout Christian after being thoroughly deconstructed theologically and having every last shred of magical [...]

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Friends: Work and play are opposites but leisure is the spirit in which we are invited to live our lives.  The Chinese characters for Leisure are:  Open Space and Sunshine.  The Chinese characters for Busy are:  Heart and Killing.  Leisure is the essential ingredient which gracefully holds the demands and the joys of all our [...]

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Friends: “God of tender care, you have cradled us in goodness, you have mothered us in wholeness, you have loved us into birth:  All around us we have known you, all creation lives to hold you; in our living and our dying we are bringing you to birth.”   (Bernadette Farrell) Bev and I and the [...]

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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.” (C. S. Lewis) CHRISTMAS EVE WORSHIP Saturday Dec. 24 Children and Family worship at 5 pm Candlelight and Communion at 10 pm CHRISTMAS DAY WORSHIP Sunday Dec. [...]

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Friends: “Every midwife knows that not until the womb softens can the child find the opening to be born.  Soften the treasure of your heart, my Friend, so that the opening may be discovered and the dark pain you carry may gracefully lead you to the never-ending grace.” December 18 is Mary Sunday for us [...]

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Friends: “Why do we rush about…..looking for God who is here at home with us, if all we want is to be with God?  Let us fly to our beloved homeland – from the noise that is around us to the joys that are silent and present within.” St. Augustine Please choose an Ornament from our Giving [...]

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Friends: “A person has no alternative but to respond to the real setting in which one finds oneself, with a result that one’s prayer is necessarily fabricated from the various inner and outward components of one’s life…..prayer grows out of life.  It is not an isolated department of life; prayer is the realization of the [...]

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“This life, therefore, is not godliness but the process of becoming godly, not health but getting well, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise.  We are not yet what we shall be, but we are on the way.  The process is not yet finished but it is actively going on.  This is not the [...]

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