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Holy and Life-giving One,
shower your healing grace on Amy and Warren.
You made them in your image, full of light and love.
In their creativity, wisdom, joy, and grace
we catch glimpses of you,
the source of all that is good and joyful and life-giving.
Holy God, we pray for healing.
Touch every cell of Amy's body with health and wholeness.
Drive far away all that is painful or cancerous.
Fill her with physical and emotional strength to win this battle.
When her spirit is tired, give her the comfort of your presence.
When her body is weak, give her the grace of your strength.
When she is afraid, fill her with the confidence of your peace.
Be for Amy and Warren the spring of healing water that washes over and fills them, today and tomorrow and for years to come.
Amen.
- The Reverend Lydia Huttar Brown
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
The Blessing of the Backpacks
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Gracious and loving God, you created us in your image, giving us minds to think and hearts to love and hands to serve. Bless these backpacks, to be a sign to those who carry them of your presence with them throughout this year. Bless these students and teachers with your grace and love.
Give them clear minds, that they may learn. Give them compassion to be true friends. Give them strong bodies and good health, to work and play for their own growth and the service of others. Above all, help them remember that you are always with them. May your love fill them with joy and peace, throughout the year.
Gracious and loving God, you created us in your image, giving us minds to think and hearts to love and hands to serve. Bless these backpacks, to be a sign to those who carry them of your presence with them throughout this year. Bless these students and teachers with your grace and love.
Give them clear minds, that they may learn. Give them compassion to be true friends. Give them strong bodies and good health, to work and play for their own growth and the service of others. Above all, help them remember that you are always with them. May your love fill them with joy and peace, throughout the year.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Something New
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Something new is upon us,
and yet nothing is ever new.
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We are alive in a fearsome time,
and we have been given new things to fear.
We've been delivered huge blows but also
huge opportunities to reinforce or reinvent our will,
depending on where we look for honor and how we name our enemies.
The easiest thing is to think of returning the blows.
But there are other things we must think about as well, other dangers we face.
A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves—these may also be our enemies.
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
- Small Wonder - Barbara Kingsolver - 2002
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Something new is upon us,
and yet nothing is ever new.
...
We are alive in a fearsome time,
and we have been given new things to fear.
We've been delivered huge blows but also
huge opportunities to reinforce or reinvent our will,
depending on where we look for honor and how we name our enemies.
The easiest thing is to think of returning the blows.
But there are other things we must think about as well, other dangers we face.
A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves—these may also be our enemies.
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
- Small Wonder - Barbara Kingsolver - 2002
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Alone With The Heavens
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
~ Anne Frank
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
~ Anne Frank
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Inuit Song
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I think over again my small adventures, my fears,
These small ones that seemed so big.
For all the vital things I had to get and to reach.
And yet there is only one great thing,
The only thing.
To live to see the great day that dawns
and the light that fills the world.
- Inuit song
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I think over again my small adventures, my fears,These small ones that seemed so big.
For all the vital things I had to get and to reach.
And yet there is only one great thing,
The only thing.
To live to see the great day that dawns
and the light that fills the world.
- Inuit song
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Monday, August 11, 2008
The Hunger Site
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If you have just an extra second each day, you can "Click to Give", at The Hunger Site. It's easy and it's free and you can donate a cup of rice, daily, simply by visiting the site and clicking on the appropriate button.
(The Hunger Site also has an amazing, fair-trade, store at which to shop to give more!)
Happy clicking!
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Wondering what you can do, right now? Saint Anne's now has a link to The Hunger Site on the side bar to the left. (You may have to scroll down a bit.) You can also click right here:
If you have just an extra second each day, you can "Click to Give", at The Hunger Site. It's easy and it's free and you can donate a cup of rice, daily, simply by visiting the site and clicking on the appropriate button.
(The Hunger Site also has an amazing, fair-trade, store at which to shop to give more!)
Happy clicking!
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Final Thoughts On Lambeth
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- An excerpt from Bishop James Jelinek's thoughts at the conclusion of the Lambeth Conference.
To read more of Bishop Jelinek's thoughts as he attended the Lambeth Conference, go to his Letters from Lambeth page on the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota website.
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Are we whole? Not yet. I am not sure we shall be whole as this Communion within the lifetime of any one of us, maybe ever. On the other hand, that concept of wholeness may itself be an idol, for it is God who does the weaving and knitting and molding so that we may be one as a communion even when we are not of one mind. We may never be able to be of one mind, but we may be able to be of one heart, by God's grace.
- An excerpt from Bishop James Jelinek's thoughts at the conclusion of the Lambeth Conference.
To read more of Bishop Jelinek's thoughts as he attended the Lambeth Conference, go to his Letters from Lambeth page on the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota website.
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