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Are We There Yet?

12/31/2017

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.” Eckart Tolle

Readings: Isaiah 61:10-62:3
Luke 2:22-40
Mindfulness by Mary Oliver

Sermon: Are We There Yet? by Rev. Inge Detweiler

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How shall we deal with such a child? Have our hands, soiled with daily toil, become too hard and too proud to fold in prayer at the sight of this child? Has our head become too full of serious thoughts...that we cannot bow our head in humility at the wonder of this child? Can we not forget all our stress and struggles, our sense of importance, and for once worship the child, as did the shepherds and the wise men from the East, bowing before the divine child in the manger like children?

from “The Government upon the Shoulders of a Child,” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The Upside Down Christmas Carol

12/17/2017

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“winged women was saying
"full of grace" and like
was light beyond sun and words
of a name and a blessing.
winged women to only i.i joined them, whispering
yes.”
― Lucille Clifton (born 1936)

“Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
& in this world of yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds”
― E.E. Cummings

Readings: Luke 1: 46-55 “The Growing Edge” by Howard Thurman, The Mood of Christmas

Sermon: The Upside Down Christmas Carol by Rev. Rich Smith

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Blessing the Way

12/3/2017

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“As Christians, we are afflicted but not crushed, perplexed but not driven to despair, persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed. – Walter Brueggemann

Readings: Isaiah 40:1-11 Mark 1: 1-8 Blessing the Way - Jan Richardson

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