Irenic Thoughts

Irenic. The word means peaceful. This web log (or blog) exists to create an ongoing, and hopefully peaceful, series of comments on the life of King of Peace Episcopal Church. This is not a closed community. You are highly encouraged to comment on any post or to send your own posts.

3/07/2008

No satisfactory substitute


People are discovering that a life full of gadgets
is no satisfactory substitute
for a life lived in the power and presence of God.

—The Rt. Rev. Albert Rhett Stuart, 6th Bishop of Georgia,
in his 1956 Adress to the Diocese

Today's religion column Who Jesus Was and Is is okay, but it didn't make the transition from sermon to column (which I cheat and do on occasion) as well as I would have liked. The full version is here as a sermon The Jesus of History and the Jesus of Faith.

peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor

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7 Comments:

  • At 3/07/2008 1:24 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    A word not about the post but the picture.

    Didn't life look wonderful back then.

    I will say your column today was very nice.

     
  • At 3/07/2008 2:08 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I guess life looked wonderful back then if you could deal with pink and yellow appliances and stand to shop in those extremely high heels!

     
  • At 3/07/2008 7:37 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I meant that it looked wonderful because he is holding her hand and she knows that he loves her. And no not just because he is buying her a new oven :o)

    Things were different back then, not always better just different.

     
  • At 3/07/2008 7:47 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    He's saying, "Look Darling! This pink oven is big enough for you to cook for me,our four children, Eddy Haskel and my mother!"

    She's saying, "Yes dear! But after walking around all day in these heels, I'll probably have another headache tonight!"

     
  • At 3/08/2008 6:42 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Oh very good, I didn't think of it that way. Now I have a whole new outlook. :o)

     
  • At 3/08/2008 7:57 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Did you notice the lady with the yellow refrigerator in the background? Hot Flashes!

    I do love how life was "simpler" back then. But, ironically, weren't these gadgets supposed to make our lives even easier? Instead, they tend to add complication to stress, or even, make it easier to add more stress to our complicated lives.

     
  • At 3/08/2008 8:14 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Like having to wash the dishes before you put them into the washer?? :o)

     

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