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Some thoughts on the Lesson-Sermon

Not just a collection of familiar, oft-read passages, half-remembered and occasionally used during the speeding hours of a busy day; but— the thing most needed, exceeding in significance all we think is waiting for our attention. These words, the Word.

God's lovely likeness

I know that where you are God is, Since He is everywhere. And being everywhere, He is where I am, too.

Making peace

Waves do not compete. In the least of lives moves something startling, fond, that cannot lose, that does not seek to win— something that succeeds as waves succeed in blossoming on the sand.

When Church speaks, do we listen?

Hello. I am your Church.

Each Joseph, every well

These things may happen: in far places where nobody knows your name a cherished coat may be stripped off and lonely cells become the recompense for righteousness. Dark thoughts, detailing grief or guilt, may shout but will not bring deliverance.

"I will give you rest"

"Come unto me," the Master said. Those burdened and oppressed Brought unto him their troubled hearts, And so he gave them rest.

Healing selfishness, healing death

When we self-center our lives, we absent ourselves from humanity. We are alone, invisible in proportion to our selfishness.

Onward

There is a quietness In me today. The winds of history Have swept the scene And plucked the shriveled leaves To crown the green.

Only a lamb...

In a dream that seemed so real, I heard my child calling to me to save him. Frantic and with all my strength I rushed to the scene, finding him already beyond my reach.

A lasting union

Love wedded to its own— husband molding thought to Soul, wife binding hers to same— this is the heart of marriage, what God has joined: Love wedded to its own. This rock of higher harmony and might endures the strain of dailiness, temptation, time, and trauma.