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Sunday Reflection: The Thing About Giving

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The act of giving is a very human act. It does not always require a huge sacrifice. Small gifts and acts from many can add up and make big things happen. Yes, we live in a time when our ability to give is tapped out. We are fatigued and weary. It’s OK to feel that way.

Giving has unique ways of presenting itself and when you least expect it you have made a impact in someone’s life.

When you feel as if you can’t do any more know that what you have done is enough. The wonderful thing about gifts is that they can multiply and impact many lives. Fish and loaves of bread come to mind. Gifts can take the form of time, talents, treasure and so much more.

Giving can be a gift to the giver and receiver. May we all find a little more to give when we have the chance.

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Sunday Reflection: Rest and Renewal

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Our lives are so scheduled, so busy, so fast. We need to spend more time in rest and renewal. Think about how this world has been moving over the past 100 or more years. So many people have run out of steam and it’s crushing their spirits. It’s good to be still and silent. Quiet is your friend.

Don’t let your lives be consumed until there is nothing left. Be good to yourselves and learn that your life doesn’t have to be spent constantly in motion. Slow it down good people.

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Sunday Reflection: Redefining Love Of Country

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Now is the time that the act loving your country be redefined. It is easy to wave a flag, go to a cookout, wear national colors. What is more difficult is to serve your fellow citizens, respect your neighbors for who they are and care about their well being as you do your own. It’s more than going to war it also means striving for peace in ones own communities.

Putting in the work to make your country the best it can be tough but through some sweat and sacrifice much can be accomplished. Nothing worth doing can be done with catch phrases and slogans. It requires a lot of dedication and so much more.

All these things can be applied just about anywhere in the world. None of this means being a nationalist because there is a larger global community in which each of us belongs to. No country or its citizens can truly go it alone.

You may have your independence, but you are still dependent on one another. Freedom’s bell cannot ring unless life, liberty, and happiness is guaranteed for all, no matter what.

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Sunday Reflection – Gathering

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Gathering at a table with gladness, joy and thanksgiving is a wonderful thing. May those tables be big and welcoming to everyone. In these times we all need to feel we are a part of something bigger than ourselves. As we gather forgive as you are forgiven. Let us all feast on the food and drink that nourishes us richly in mind, body and spirit. Grace and peace to each of you my friends.

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Sunday Reflection: Good Destruction

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Forces in your life will destroy you. Well not kill you but shape you in such a way that changes you for the better. Everyone is being destroyed by something that is making you who you were meant to be. Those are things that impact your whole life and everything that makes you the person you are.

Good destruction means allowing yourself to be transformed into someone better and to come into good forces that will show you a new way forward. Love is a good force that destroys and builds back better.

Your identity is being formed as you go through this life and hopefully, good things are influencing you. It’s incredible how a wrecking ball can take away the things that are doing bad stuff in your life. What is that thing that is making you that person you are supposed to be?

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Sunday Reflection: Serving In Service

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I miss serving on Sundays at Church as a Lay Eucharistic Minister. Due to COVID-19 my parish, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church is meeting outdoors and taking precautions to keep our members safe. This means communion, which is served in two-parts, bread and wine that is the body and blood of Christ we are only serving the bread which is safer to serve. (I would normally serve the wine which comes from a chalice which is a common cup everyone drinks from by a very ancient tradition).

Much has changed in how we live our daily lives. Everything seems different and it’s challenging to all of us to adapt and adjust. For me my faith has helped out with that. Other folks are finding comfort in their own ways. My hope is for a future where we can return to the ordinary but the normal will be redefined.

Service on Sunday is important to me but keeping my family, friends and strangers safe and well is so much more important. God calls that being good to my neighbors and myself.