Friends:  “Humility is true self-knowledge.  God is your being, and who you are…you are in God. True self-knowledge cannot end in the mere awareness of our faults and failings.  True self-knowledge opens onto God.  Perfect humility is meeting/receiving/enjoying the unfathomable love of God, who is the ground of our being.”          (The Cloud of Unknowing) “By [...]

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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….. let it go.”                                   Mary Oliver The Theme for our Soup and Sacrament Series this [...]

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Friends:  “Each human being, regardless of birth, status, or native ability, has the right to be seen as created as an image of God, filled with infinite worth, equal to all other human beings, and so unique that he or she can say with surprise, ‘The world exists for me!’ On the other hand, since [...]

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Friends:  “The ego seeks its desires in words and actions.  The soul rests and awakens in the stillness of the Presence.” Our thanks to the Partnership Committee for last Sunday’s worship.  These are Calvin Neswiswi’s 5 Points for Strengthening and Sustaining a Healthy Partnership [Calvin is the chair of the Lwamondo Parish Partnership Committee]: 1) [...]

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Friends:  “There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible but in the end, they always fail.  Think of it:  always.”  (Mahatma Gandhi – assassinated January 30, 1948….the year after the British peacefully transferred power to an independent India and left)  Partnership Sunday:  This Sunday we get to celebrate with [...]

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Friends:   UNMASKING:  First of all, you have to keep unmasking the world around you for what it is:  manipulative, controlling, power-hungry and in the long run, destructive.  The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have to be realistic enough to remind yourself of this – you have to dare [...]

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Friends – Julay! “I confess I am not afraid of tension…constructive nonviolent tension is necessary for growth. We are not the creators of tension; we merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. All racism distorts the soul and damages the personality – of oppressor and oppressed. Shallow understanding from people [...]

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Friends:  “I, Paul, have been entrusted with this special grace of proclaiming to all the unfathomable treasure of Christ and of throwing light on the inner workings of the mystery kept hidden through all the ages in God the Creator of everything.  The purpose of this was that now through the Church the powers and [...]

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Happy New Year!  Here is a letter to our partners in South Africa which shares some of the Advent/Christmas highlights! To our Brothers and Sisters in Lwamondo Parish—Christmas Greetings from Peace Lutheran Church! We send greetings from everyone at Peace to our friends in Lwamondo Parish and the Beuster Deanery.  We have been very busy since [...]

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Merry Christmas! After the seas are all crossed, (as they seem already crossed,) After the great captains and engineers have accomplished their work, After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist, the geologist, ethnologist, Finally shall come the poet worthy of that name, The true son of God shall come singing his songs.            [...]

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