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The Grace of Coming Home

  • Posted on Sep 14, 2011

A Meditation for Homecoming Sunday:The Sacrament of Home When I think of coming home, I think of our dining room table. Whatever age I was growing up, I came home to supper around the family dining room table. This has been true throughout my life—when I came home from grade school, high school or college

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Days of Loss and Gratitude

  • Posted on Sep 5, 2011

We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away….Yet, O Lord, you are our Father, we are the clay, and you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. Isaiah 64: 6b, 8. As we approach the tenth anniversary of September 11th, those of us on

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Spring abounds and unbinds!

  • Posted on Apr 11, 2011

Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!: The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let hinm go.” John 11:42-44 This weekend at Orkney Springs, the sun finally emerged on Sunday out of

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Fear of Sacrifice

  • Posted on Apr 1, 2011

For I solemnly warned your ancestors when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, Obey my voice. Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of an evil will. Jeremiah 11  In the Daily Lectionary, we are

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Earthquake, Fire and Flood

  • Posted on Mar 24, 2011

From lightning and tempest; from earthquake, fire, and flood; from plague, pestilence, and famine,Good Lord, deliver us. From all oppression, conspiracy, and rebellion; from violence, battle, and murder; and from dying suddenly and unprepared,Good Lord, deliver us. The Great Litany, The Book of Common Prayer, p. 149 In 467 c.e., when the city of Vienne

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