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  • Text: Loving another, thus experiencing God who is love, the heart finds rest. From my favorite musical drama, Les Miserables, the moving closing song says it all: “To love another person is to see the Face of God” – and experience a heart at rest! © Grand Valley State University
Restless Mind and Quiet Heart: Quest and Rest

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  • Text: ...es up with me and here I am, trying to preach about it again. But, let me contrast for you the story as it was dramatically, musically, instrumentally set forth, and the account which we read a moment ago in John's Gospel. The drama, the pageant, of course, is from the birth stories of...
This Is Our Story

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  • Text: ...During  those  years  I  have  loved  our  Easter  worship  –  the  liturgy,   the  music,  the  whole  setting  so  fraught  with  spring  –new  life,  new  beginning   expressed  in  the  décor  of...
Easter Reflection

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  • Text: ... approaches the whole person through all the senses.” About the time of that seminar, Mr. Bryson came to us as Director of Music and Fine Arts. In the beginning he was also directing the St. Mary’s music program and thus brought with him not only his own artistic sensitivity bu...
Healing the Heart as We Say Goodbye in the Presence of Mystery

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  • Text: ...n the lives of those who practice a given religious way. We miss our faith community – the people, the gatherings, the music, the rituals, the celebration of the Seasons. All of that shapes and forms and creates life-shaping practice. It puts one in the milieu of the Sacred Mystery,...
Rhem Family Christmas Service

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  • Text: ...He must realize that, like a gypsy, he lives on the boundary of an alien world, a world that is deaf to his music and is indifferent to his hopes as it is to his suffering or his crimes. We say we are created by God. Well, wait a minute. What if that isn't true? If that is not true, th...
Human Community in the Image of God

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  • Text: ...He must realize that like a gypsy, he lives on the boundary of an alien world, a world that is deaf to his music, and as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his sufferings or his crimes." That is honest and hard hitting, and clear eyed. If there is no one home in the universe, then we...
A Healthy Perspective - But Is This All There Is?

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  • Text: ...ak, and someone was here on the 24th at all three services, in the morning that marvelous cantata and pageant, the thrilling music and the Christmas story, the quieter candlelight Eucharist service at 9:00 in the evening, and then the traditional Lessons and Carols, the late service. This p...
Still the Light Shines Giving New Vision

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  • Text: Tied up to the nearby docks people were eating brats and hot dogs and there was a musical group (though not nearly as good as the Weideman family but with a certain similarity!) and the people washing down excessive numbers of brats and hot dogs with excessive liquids of various kinds.
The Breath of God - The Life of the World

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  • Text: ...t, it’s Reformation Sunday, it’s to be a Protestant worship, there ought to be a word of God. I said, “Do you have any music?” She said, “No, we don’t have music.” I said, “Well, I’ll be forced to preach.” (Much laughter) So I am going to preach. You want to kno...
Future Edge - Tradition: Instrument of Continuity and Change

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  • Text: In the parable, the elder brother who was such a person, coming in from the fields, hears the music and dancing and catches a whiff of the fatted calf roasting on the spit, and like the eruption of Mt Etna, all of his anger and resentment and hostility break forth.
The Gift of Life, The Life of Grace

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  • Text: ...He must realize that, like a gypsy, he lives in the boundary of an alien world, a world that is deaf to his music and as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his suffering and to his crimes.” And Erich Fromm writes in Man For Himself, There is only one solution to his problem – to face ...
911: To An Unknown God - This is an Emergency!