Be swift to love
—Henri-Frederic Amiel, (1821-1881)
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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.
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At 7/30/2008 9:13 AM, said…
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At 7/29/2008 7:44 AM, said…
The ripples sent out by good actions do out weigh those sent out by evil actions. Good actions tend to go unnoticed because of the news media that concentrates more on "bad" news. So, it does look like evil prevails but that is not true.
I believe there is more good in this world than evil. Love is conquering and will continue to do so; we're just not able to see it most of the time.
Merciful God, you grant to children an abundant entrance into your kingdom, in your compassion, comfort those who mourn for Laina, and grant us grace to conform our lives to her innocence and faith, that at length, united with her, we may stand in your presence in the fullness of joy; for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen
At 7/30/2008 8:26 AM, King of Peace said…
The sermon from Laina's funeral is now online here: An Autobiography Written in Smiles
At 7/30/2008 10:17 AM, Laura said…
At 7/30/2008 7:30 PM, Wendi said…
I had the privledge of taking care of Laina when she was in the hospital. She had an unbelievable smile and was the prettiest baby. Please know that you are in my thoughts and prayes. As a mother who has buried two daughters I know all too well the pain. But there is joy in faith and knowing that you will one day see your angel again. Smile when you think of her because she was such a special blessing and is smiling down on you now. I never had the chance to meet you Cory but my heart goes out to you as well as Natalie. Nat you are a wonderful Mom and I love you. Love, Wendi RN
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Why else would he talk about heaven in terms of farmers and fields and women baking bread and merchants buying and selling things and fisherman sorting fish, unless he meant somehow to be telling us that the kingdom of heaven has to do with these things, that our treasure is buried not in some exotic far off place that requires a special map but that “X” marks the spot right here, right now, in all the ordinary people and places and activities in our lives.—Barbara Brown TaylorIn tomorrow's Gospel reading, Jesus tells of the Kingdom of heaven by means of parables. Here are a few of them:
The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.Lindy Black has written of these short takes on the coming kingdom saying,
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
It seems to me that the Kingdom of God is more of a verb than a noun; the reigning of God, more than the reign. Jesus is not really comparing the kingdom to 5 THINGS, but rather 5 ACTIONS. For example, he doesn't say that the kingdom of heaven is like A PEARL; he says it's like a merchant IN SEARCH OF pearls. It's like a mustard seed... that SOMEONE TOOK AND SOWED, like yeast... that a woman TOOK AND MIXED; like a treasure... that someone FOUND AND HID; like a net... THAT WAS THROWN. It may sound really obvious, but all of these THINGS are useless... unless they are used!
So the Kingdom of God is not some lifeless thing that we can look at and appreciate: it is life and action and response to God's call.
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At 7/25/2008 8:27 AM, said…
At 7/25/2008 8:44 AM, King of Peace said…
Anonymous,
Actually, I was a Methodist for the first 10 years of my life, a Pentecostal for the next ten years (Church of God and Assembly of God) and came to The Episcopal Church 25 years ago. The faith I found there was the Christian faith I had found in the other denominations. That was the same. But the liturgy spoke deeply to me as did the sacraments. I also found that Episcopalians read a LOT of scripture in church and I loved that. It felt like coming home to become an Episcopalian, but it didn't feel like leaving behind everything I had been. It was and is a good fit for me, even though I know that is not true for everyone and I'm great with that. Finding the right fit so that you can more fully live into the faith that is in you is important.
I was ordained eight years ago, so while having been in other denominations, as a pastor I have only served within The Episcopal Church.
peace,
Frank+
At 7/25/2008 1:53 PM, said…
When I first began exploring the Episcopal church, I came upon an essay written by The Rev. George Ann Boyle entitled "Spiritual But Not Religious". Here is an excerpt from that essay, which I think you might enjoy:
It's not about having answers as much as it is about engaging a story. It is about your story and how your story connects to an ancient story of desert wanderers that, in time, came to see that humanity and this energy they called God mingled and existed through Christ and thus, exists in all of humanity.
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/visitors_33028_ENG_HTM.htm
At 7/25/2008 3:58 PM, The Bosom Serpent said…
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The birth of the church two thousand years ago was not the result of some marketing strategy. Nor was it an attempt to introduce a new religion into the world. There was not some massive plan with a seven-step or five-point strategic vision to achieve certain programmatic objectives. There was no goal of building an institution that would vaunt some hierarchical structure and exercise power in the world.—The Rev. Rick Barger, from A New and Right Spirit
The church was born out of the Spirit of God. Its purpose was to witness to the saving activity of God, not as proffering a deal, cause, or spiritual assistance but to be a transparent sign in which and through which Jesus is encountered, experienced, known, and lives. The church's relationship to Jesus is not simply to be identified with a historical person. The church's identification with Jesus is its DNA. Jesus not only gives the church its DNA. Jesus is the church's DNA. Jesus abides or lives in the church (John 15:4 and others). Thus, Jesus can speak about his being "the vine" and the church being "the branches" (John 15:5). Vine and branch are of the same DNA, The church as the Body of Christ is more than just a metaphor. It is reality.
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At 7/23/2008 8:45 AM, said…
I always tell my family and friends that I don't know what I would do without my Church family. Being a military family it is even more important to us to have a Church family that is so warm and welcoming! Every week I know I will have hugs and smiles to look forward to and adult conversation :) I love that we all don't rush out the door but take the time to visit after service to see how our church family is doing. I know our family will remember this church as a place filled with love and laughter and people you can count on. We love you all!!
Amber and the boys :)
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At 7/23/2008 8:13 AM, averagecandy said…
The drawings are symbolic gestures and not intended to boost attendance, he said.
"When Jesus was at the wedding feast of Cana, the groom ran out of wine, he produced the wine for them," he said. "In that spirit, we feel that this might be comparable."
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The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away.Jesus did not mention just any weed. He actually mentioned Tares, which refers to the "bearded darnel" or lolium temulentum which was a grass that looked like wheat until the ears appeared. In other words, the weeds and the wheat looked alike until you saw their fruit. This fits Jesus' teaching elsewhere that you know someone by the fruit they produce, with good trees producing good fruit and bad trees producing bad fruit. The real downside to the Tares is that the seeds were a poison and so if you wait until the harvest you will have poisoned your field for next year.
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At 7/16/2008 8:28 PM, said…
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At 7/15/2008 10:51 AM, said…
A woman had a challenging dream—that she walked into a new shop in the mall—and to her surprise, found God behind the counter. "What do you sell here?" she asked. "Everything your heart desires," said God. "Everything."
Hardly daring to believe what she was hearing, the woman decided to ask for the best things a human could wish for. "I'll take some peace of mind and love and happiness and wisdom and freedom from fear, " she said. Then as an afterthought, she added, "Not just for me. For everyone on earth."
God smiled. "I think you've got me wrong, my dear," God said, "We don't sell the fruits here. We only sell the seeds."
In today’s parable, the first question is, who is the sower? In the ancient world, sowing preceded plowing. Still, the manner of sowing described in this parable is sloppy and wasteful. If the sower is a landowner, the peasant audience would despise his waste of precious seed.Knowing that the harvest would be plentiful in that real context allows the hearer to know that the sowing of the Gospel would also result in the harvest desired by the master.
If the sower is a tenant farmer or a day laborer, the peasants would sympathize with his careful sowing which ends up wasting seed anyway because conditions are so difficult.
The impossibly extravagant harvest gives a clue to the identity of the sower. On average, one might expect a four- or five-fold return on sowing. Thirty-, sixty-, and a hundredfold boggle the imagination.
If a wasteful landowner realized such a profit, Jesus’ parable is hardly good news to the peasants who made up 95 percent of his audience.
But if the sower were a peasant, then the good news is that the crop will satisfy the landowner, provide seed for next year’s sowing, pay all taxes, and still leave enough for the peasant to feed the family.
Moreover, since it is clearly God and not human effort that produces this humongous harvest, the “something other” or “something more” that the parable intends is now very clear. The scenario describes sowing and farming, but it really points to a loving and provident God who looks after needy peasants.
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At 7/08/2008 12:51 PM, said…
For Jay,
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time
It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
- The Beatles, All You Need is Love
At 7/08/2008 8:44 PM, said…
"According to a new Pew survey, 21% of American atheists believe in God or a universal spirit, 12% believe in heaven and 10% pray at least once a week. What do you make of this?"Other respones are here: What atheists believe.
I love this question and the reality to which it points, namely, that people are complex and perpetually surprising. What the finding about atheists suggests to me is something that I came across many times in my work as a pastor: when people call themselves atheists, they often mean not that they don't believe in any god at all as the term would indicate, but they don't believe in a particular version or description of God.
I think of a fellow who attended my church for several months and then told me how much he enjoyed my sermons. "I agree with everything you teach," he said, which surprised me since I was pretty sure my wife wouldn't say that! Then he quickly added, "Except for one thing ... I don't believe in God."
A small detail apparently? I asked him to tell me more about that, and he replied, "It's my sister. She has always been annoying, but a few years ago she became a fundamentalist Christian, and now she's completely unbearable. She constantly causes family fights and seems determined to make everybody she meets feel guilty."
I replied, "So you're afraid if you believe in God, you'll become a pain in the neck like your sister."
He replied, "Yes. That's it exactly."
I took a risk: "Do you think I'm a pain in the neck, since I obviously believe in God?"
"Oh, not at all," he replied. "You and the people at the church are wonderful."
"So, if you could find a way to believe in God the way some of us do, and not the way your sister does, maybe it would be OK?"
"Wow, that really helps me," he said. A few months later, he did come to a deep faith in God, which continues to grow today. A lot of pastors have learned from similar experiences to ask people, when they say they are atheists, "Tell me about the God you don't believe in." More often than not, we can say, "I don't believe in that kind of God either. I can't blame you for being an atheist if that's the understanding of God that you're rejecting."
Of course, many people are more "orthodox" atheists of the naturalistic sort, refusing to believe in anything beyond physics and mathematics. But according to the Pew data, there are a significant number out there who at first seem to be simply illogical by claiming both atheism and belief in some sort of deity ... but with further conversation, it turns out they have an interesting spiritual story full of unresolved tensions, and that story isn't finished yet. Which is true of us all.
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At 7/06/2008 7:50 PM, Jan said…
Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.A yoke is what oxen wore to pull the plow together in a field. Yoke's are for work and service. Yet, with a yoke one is tied to another who pulls too. Jesus says "take my yoke upon you." We do not go it alone, Jesus is yoked with us, pulling with us. This is what makes it easy and light and in this we find ourselves refreshed.
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Father, through Jesus Christ your Son, give your Holy Spirit to Jay; fill him with grace and power, and make him a deacon in your Church.Come tonight to add your prayers to those of the congregation and our Bishop as God makes Jay a deacon in Christ's one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church.
The Bishop continues
Make him, O Lord, modest and humble, strong and constant, to observe the discipline of Christ. Let his life and teaching so reflect your commandments, that through him many may come to know you and love you. As your Son came not to be served but to serve, may this deacon share in Christ’s service, and come to the unending glory of him who, with you and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever.
The People in a loud voice respond Amen.
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At 7/03/2008 8:42 AM, said…
At 7/04/2008 8:44 AM, King of Peace said…
Jay arrived here justover a year ago with a plan that he would leave about now. He came to get involved with and work in an Episcopal Church while the congregation and the Diocese of Georgia discerned with him whether he was called to ordained ministry in The Episcopal Church. Were that to happen, he would then go for a further year of studies (he has a Masters in Divinity now) at an Episcopal Seminary. He received the necessary approvals and will leave in mid August for a year at General Seminary, the oldest of the 11 Episcopal seminaries. He will study for a Masters in Sacred Theology and at some time more than six months from now, he will be ordained as a priest. On graduation he return to the Diocese of Georgia to work in a church.
So, all of that is to say, yes Jay is leaving as was planned when he arrived. We'll miss him. We'll miss Alison. I am glad they came to live and minister among us and with us.
peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor
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