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Musings (Page 2)

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Sunday Reflection

1 Corinthians 10:1-13 “… our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and…

Sunday Reflection

Genesis 15:1-18. God doesn’t call us by putting an announcement in the bulletin: “We need more ushers! If you’re willing to serve, please let us know!” No… God calls us by name, just as he called Abram. All Abram wanted was a child. But God had bigger plans. His plans are always bigger than ours.…

Taking Comfort from the Past (Way Past)

Regardless of which political way we lean most of us feel some concern for the future these days. We are a divided nation with few on either side completely satisfied with the current situation. To whom then can we turn for comfort? In the fifth century St. Augustine of Hippo was faced with a somewhat…

Stewardship

This letter from Uzoma, a member of our Vestry was included in our weekly Parish News email.  To sign up for our newsletter, please visit: Constant Contact. To see the full weekly Parish News email from May 19th, please visit: http://conta.cc/2qC7xKg   Generosity is a matter of actions, and intentions, in other words the outpouring of…

Worship is language

This is Canon Victoria’s letter in our weekly Parish News email.  To sign up for our newsletter, please visit: Constant Contact. To see the full weekly Parish News email from May 5th, please visit: http://conta.cc/2q8ixQ8 Recently I was in an elevator. I saw the Braille markings next to the Arabic numbers on the buttons.   I had…