Showing posts with label Gift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gift. Show all posts
15 November 2018
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10 November 2018
generosity
“Sink your generosity deep into our lives
that your muchness may expose our false lack
that endlessly receiving we may endlessly give
so that the world may be made Easter new,
without greedy lack, but only wonder…
Finish your creation, in wonder, love and praise. Amen.”
that your muchness may expose our false lack
that endlessly receiving we may endlessly give
so that the world may be made Easter new,
without greedy lack, but only wonder…
Finish your creation, in wonder, love and praise. Amen.”
-Walter Brueggemann
generosity
“Sink your generosity deep into our lives
that your muchness may expose our false lack
that endlessly receiving we may endlessly give
so that the world may be made Easter new,
without greedy lack, but only wonder…
Finish your creation, in wonder, love and praise. Amen.”
that your muchness may expose our false lack
that endlessly receiving we may endlessly give
so that the world may be made Easter new,
without greedy lack, but only wonder…
Finish your creation, in wonder, love and praise. Amen.”
-Walter Brueggemann
25 April 2010
Easter 4 Sermon
The Rev. Peter M. Carey
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Fourth Sunday of Easter Sermon
25 April 2010
Have you heard the news…?
You have been given this day, we have been given this day, perhaps even 24 new hours, to live. To see glimpses of God's love for us, to experience and share it.
24 new hours.
A gift.
Do we see it this way? Do we fall into the trap (idolatry) of thinking that we have a fundamental right to this day, ... week, ... year, ... decade and beyond? A gift, a gift of life. We have been given this day, can we live in gratitude?
We have a finite amount of time here together, and this is but a temporary home before we go to our ultimate home. Until then, however, in this time and this place, there may be glimpses and signs of the greater home of the greater glory, of our own deeper reality.
In the Acts reading today, the widows in the followers of the "way of Jesus" beg Peter to come quickly and raise Tabitha from the dead. We know that Tabitha was a woman devoted to good works and acts of charity, and the widows had been recipients of her good works and compassion. They came to Peter not unlike Mary and Martha who came to Jesus and begged to have Jesus bring Lazarus back from the dead. Here, Peter goes to Tabitha, and through him, God raises her from the dead. This act is but one of many miraculous acts that we hear about in the lectionary during this season of Easter. These acts inspire many to become followers and believers to the “way of Jesus.”
Have you heard the news…?
You have been given this day, we have been given this day, perhaps even 24 new hours, to live. To see glimpses of God's love for us, to experience and share it.
24 new hours.
A gift.
Do we see it this way? Do we fall into the trap (idolatry) of thinking that we have a fundamental right to this day, ... week, ... year, ... decade and beyond? A gift, a gift of life. We have been given this day, can we live in gratitude?
We have a finite amount of time here together, and this is but a temporary home before we go to our ultimate home. Until then, however, in this time and this place, there may be glimpses and signs of the greater home of the greater glory, of our own deeper reality.
In the Acts reading today, the widows in the followers of the "way of Jesus" beg Peter to come quickly and raise Tabitha from the dead. We know that Tabitha was a woman devoted to good works and acts of charity, and the widows had been recipients of her good works and compassion. They came to Peter not unlike Mary and Martha who came to Jesus and begged to have Jesus bring Lazarus back from the dead. Here, Peter goes to Tabitha, and through him, God raises her from the dead. This act is but one of many miraculous acts that we hear about in the lectionary during this season of Easter. These acts inspire many to become followers and believers to the “way of Jesus.”
Read the rest HERE
26 November 2009
The gift of this day, David Steindl-Rast
Brother David Steindl-Rast is a wise and wonderful writer and speaker who emphasizes the way that we can develop gratitude in order to live a rich and abundant life.
In this short video, "A Good Day," with David Steindl-Rast, he explores the gift that this day is for us.
A beautiful reflection for any day, but especially for Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving!
~The Rev. Peter M. Carey
In this short video, "A Good Day," with David Steindl-Rast, he explores the gift that this day is for us.
A beautiful reflection for any day, but especially for Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving!
~The Rev. Peter M. Carey
30 July 2007
It is not you who shape God, it is God who shapes you
By Irenaeus
It is not you who shapes God, it is God who shapes you.
If then you are the work of God, await the hand of the artist
Who does all things in due season.
Offer God your heart, soft and tractable,
And keep the form in which the artist has fashioned you.
Let your clay be moist,
Lest you grow hard and lose the imprint of God’s fingers.
Source: www.inwardoutward.org and Shalem News, www.shalem.org
07 July 2007
"Begin to see your self as gift, love it as gift, from God's hand...
"Begin to see your self as gift, love it as gift, from God's hand,
and learn how the neighbor too is a gift,
to himself or herself, and to you."
-Rowan Williams, (Resurrection, p. 38)
Lord knows I need to hear these words from Rowan Williams more often, to remember that my life is gift, and that the neighbor's life is also gift. My good friend Eric wrote a thesis on this concept of gift as Rowan Williams uses it in his theology. I have yet to fully digest his good work, but at this point, this idea of gift is so important, and keeps bringing me back to the embrace of the one who chose me and made me and sustains me and loves me, and also loves all those around me.
Summer is a great time to remember this concept of giftedness, and caring for and spending time with young people is also a great way to remember that we are all gifts, and that we should care for ourselves and others as God would (and does) care for us!
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