Devotion
Blessings
“Forget about the days when it’s been cloudy, but don’t forget your hours in the sun. Forget about the times you’ve been defeated, but don’t forget the victories you’ve won. Forget about the mistakes that you can’t change now, but don’t forget the lessons. Forget about the misfortunes you’ve encountered, but don’t forget the times […]
Pentecost: Reflections
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-096 (Devotional) PENTECOST: REFLECTIONS (From Christian Quotation Of the Day) Every time we say, ‘I believe in the Holy Spirit,’ we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it. … J. B. Phillips, Plain Christianity [1954] ~~~~~ The Spirit is […]
Looking Forward And Backwards
Probability analysis on the end of the world is interesting but for me the alpha and omega is at every moment. Has anyone ever considered that the bible might refer to aspects of our inner selves that are always active and at odds with each other? Part of me is lot, part of me is […]
30 Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays
1. The road reaches every place, the short cut only one. 2. Those who demand consideration for their sacrifices were making investments, not sacrifices. 3. What you give to a thief is stolen. 4. Despair says I cannot lift that weight. Happiness says, I do not have to. 5. You’ve never said anything as stupid […]
Learning To Get Up Again
Religion in Daily Life © By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. http://www.allsaintstorresdale.org A baby giraffe has a tough time as he enters this world. He falls about ten feet from his mother’s womb. He lands on his back. The mother giraffe checks her newborn baby, positions herself, and, with a swift kick, sends the baby […]
As You Think
Wise men and philosophers throughout the ages have disagreed on many things, but many are inunanimous agreement on one point:”We become what we think about.” Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius put it this way: “A man’s life is what his thoughts […]
Extravagant Worship
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-069 EXTRAVAGANT WORSHIP From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me. John 12:8. Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem for the last time, and revisits Bethany, […]
The Circle Is Unbroken
He was driving home one evening, on a two-lane country road. Work, in this small, mid-western community, was almost as slow as his beat-up Pontiac. But he never quit looking. Ever since the Levis factory closed, hed been unemployed, and with winter raging on, the chill had finally hit home. It was a lonely road. […]
Service Of Thanksgiving For The Queen Mother – St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney
St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney Founded 1819 Consecrated 1868 Restored 2000 With thanksgiving for the life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother 4th August 1900 – 30th March 2002 —————————————————————————- —- Tuesday 9th April 2002 Human beings have experienced the mystery of death, and the pain of grief, since time immemorial. Every society has […]
Words For A Frightened World
“Words for a Frightened World” Religion in Daily Life C By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. Rector, All Saints’ Church 9601 Frankford Ave. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19114 Written 24 April 2002 http://www.allsaintstorresdale.org Although it was more than a half a century later, Jesus’ friends remembered the sense of what he had said to those frightened men […]
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