 Thoughts from our Pastor, the Reverend Peggi Boyce.
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Rescued!... Recovering... Being Redeemed... |
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Written by Rev. Peggi Boyce
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Wednesday, 21 November 2007 |
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Natasha’s Tale… a Parable not yet finished Rescued!
Being Rescued can be traumatic… pulled out of darkness, fear, and pain… carried in a strangers’ arms to a new place without being consulted… moved from one place to another… then once again kenneled in fear for long hours, surrounded by strangers… then again bright lights and new smells and voices and faces… not knowing that each new place takes me one step further away from the abuse and closer to the home that is being prepared for me… knowledge comes later; now there is confusion and fear… but also a new experience of “nice” that I don’t trust yet, but Oh! I want to trust it.
__Natasha Even though we like to deny that we have been abused or neglected, that we have been sinned upon or have become the ‘collateral damage’ of the sin-full-ness of the human race, when we are honest about our lives we know, at some level, that “sin is real” and “sin is pervasive”. When we experience, for the first time, the truth of the Cross, the reality of God’s Grace, the freedom that comes from coming Home to God, … that’s when we can write “Rescued!” in our Diaries. Too often, we sit down at that point, and take a deep breath, and refuse to move on. “After all, God has forgiven me and saved me and I am OK! So that’s DONE. We don’t have to keep harping on it, do we?”
If the story stops there, the healing and the recovery don’t happen. If the work stops there, we (humans) can fall into the traps of complacency, of arrogance about our own rescue, and of contempt for those who have not yet found their rescuers.
__Peggi |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 29 December 2007 )
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The Resurrection and the Reality |
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Written by Rev. Peggi Boyce
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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
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Inside the Church we are celebrating the season of Eastertide, and the Gospel readings focus on the Lord’s post-resurrection appearances. It’s a time for rejoicing, for Alleluias and Hope and the triumph of God’s Love over death and everything negative. Yet in our world, in the last two weeks, we have experienced the tragedy at Virginia Tech and the Nor’easter flooding in New England, and everywhere we turn neighbors are sick and children are at risk. The calendar says Spring is here, but in spite of the defiant shorts-wearers the daffodiles haven’t bloomed yet. So, how do we put the resurrection and the reality together? |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 27 April 2007 )
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What do you want for 2007? |
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Written by Rev. Peggi Boyce
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Monday, 01 January 2007 |
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This last week of 2006 has been interesting, hasn’t it? The news was full of reports of death… of President Ford, of Dictator Saddam Hussein, of Singer James Brown. What a picture of our world! Regardless of what you thought of each one, they each changed the world they lived in, and now the world will go on without them. The fact that their deaths occurred at the end of the year reminds us that we are always living between the past and the future. So, will 2007 be a fresh beginning for you? What do you want? What will you be doing to make that happen? How will you partner with God in this New Year? |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 01 January 2007 )
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