-- Part 2: Breaking of Bread and Seeing (Eyes open and attune to the presence of Christ from the farm to the Lord's Table ... a systems comprehension)

-- Part 3: Breaking of Bread and Being Seen (Communion and Christian witness ... a comprehensive story)

is preaching.

now thank we all our god

disabilities are awkward. even the way you say "dis" ability is awkward.  

differently-abled. probably, that's right. at least that's a better framework

for humanity. so whay do we keep on "othering" one another?

we have a real example in mary julia. in poverty.  

trying to get around the WWJD impulse of pity/compassion to something

subject/subject. like that yoga prayer; 

the world feels it when we're always trying to "make them whole."

and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun/ 

the days of darkness will be many/ 

everything is breath.

see if you can say that to a person without good eyes.  

without light skin. tricky.

-rumi: each other.

-dude who echolocates.

-war and peace. find the why...

-use psalm 38:9-11

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294921919

(this sets up the dualism we'll be undermining.)

Mark 8:24- And the man^* looked up and said, ‘I can see people, but they look like trees, walking.’

galileo, many of today's atheists, probably the wise men, knew that reality was best described mathematically.

yet babies don't learn their 123's as well as their abc's. preachers TALK their way into the godworld,

when it might be clearer to scribble out an equation that charts the movements of the unseen.

-"i was told there'd be no math."

-in the gospel, numbers = "mysterious."

-lots for mathias, acts 1: http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294926494

-the language of mathematics

-as theology.

-golden rectangle (with temple measurements)

describing the world.

(you should change the word "pilaster". nobody knows what it means.)

here's the matthew reading, verbatim:

"before jesus tells the parable of the talents, which has a lot of accounting in it, he answers peter's question about how often you should forgive. seven times seventy times, he says. seven times seventy."

after tcaps now, let's reflect on the end of education. does it work?  

what would an education look like whose want was god?

and here's the other bit: faith is what we call the motivating ideas 

and values that influence our actual being. we all have faith, it's just 

a question of what in. (most of us don't really have faith in "the faith"--

follow?) so religion has to care about shaping those values, or, in other

words, education.

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294927788

-ecclesiastes 10:2

² The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
 but the heart of a fool to the left. :) start here,

then undercut hegemony.

teacher of the law http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294928135

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294928682

also ticky is the tendency to scape goat them. obama will save us. our heroes are helpful only so long as they inspire or galvanize our own movement towards redemption.

in this way judaism's cyrus is a better model than christianity's jesus. what of ghandi? hm? 

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294937826

malachi 4:5-6 the return of elijah at the end of the xtn OT. it matters what you say about messiahs.

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294938048

or maybe it's something contemporary?

1) cyrus, the messiah, is a foreigner.  

2) the end game of the bible is not a hope for a messiah (he already came); 

it's for the people to return to the land.

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294938376

john?

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294939163

-if so, (i hope not, but) how do you make a healthy saint?

the buddhist call this truth karma, and "you can't escape your karma."  

everything you have done and been and seen compile life to exactly where you are 

and no other place. you can, of course, change the trajectory of your life, 

"you can change your karma," but it requires an unusual effort to counterweight 

the orbit of your already-in-place inertias. the taoist called that inertia "the 10,000 things."  

religion aims to help people overcome the 10,000 things and live in the godworld.

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294940573

baptism

peace

(no proem)

abram: http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294944288

moses: http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294944335

jesus: http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294944421

billions of people are overcaffeinated. billions more are drunk.  

in the bible, everything is altered. bushes burn but aren't consumed.  

tongues of fire. holy babies. hmmm.  

maybe everything is supposed to be holy :).

pentecost- http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=294945104

ecclesiastes on wine?

altered states?

if you'd like to talk before, 901-297-1121

one: i have always wondered why people cling to difference

many: when we are so much alike

one: when we could share so readily

many: so often we do not

one: why is that?  perhaps our lesser angels are fallen? 

many: there is a higher law. 

one: let us search then: 

many: to know our differences as strengths,

one: and our sameness under God.

Psalm - Mimi Herron

Chat - Jeanine Akers

Acolyte - A Bingham Boy

Psalm - Henning Washington

Chat - Elizabeth McFadden

red 553 we've come this far...

Acolyte -Will Aldinger

Acolyte -Addie Aldinger

Psalm -Addie Aldinger

Chat - Emily M

blue 339 be thou my vision

A way of believing.

Is that all?

A way of being, then.

That's much better. "Faith is that by which we live and move and have our being," from Paul.

It describes our motivation;

our grounding philosophies. So what are yours?

We've come to learn. 

Thanks be to God!

Psalm - Mimi Herren

Chat - Emily M

the ways of God

our mis-steps and failings 

we learn to forgive 

we grow from one another 

from watching with prayer 

inspired to be more 

for good in this world 

i am grateful for here 

for each of you 

i give thanks.

red 517 love divine all loves excelling

oragami maybe?

blue 269 o god of bethel

One: Look! In the sky! 

All: A bird! A plane! 

One: I wish there were Superman.

All: Sometimes to be saved, 

One: When I am unable myself, 

All: Is all I really want-

One: like a weaned child with its mother, 

All: my soul within.

One: Let us worship God.  

acolyte - Quintin Miller

psalm - Lily Cloud

chat - Emily M

the work of your fingers

the moon and the sars

that you command

what are human beings

that you are mindful of them?

and yet you are our God

we are you people

the work of your hands.

red 211 jesus walked this lonesome valley

"I am led to the idea of Pentecost as the start of Christian peacemaking (forming communities of prayer to transcend language barriers, share goods in common)" 

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=299149734

and let there be signs,

let there be common holdings

among believers

and the far flung community

of spirit and power-

common hope

and common bread-

the gifts of God;

let us worship.

red 261 there's a sweet, sweet spirit

blue 323 loving spirit

when the waters saw

the marvel of the Lord-

they looked back;

I stood on dry land. Later there was a bush,

burning, yet not consumed,

with the fire of God

my heart!

Let us worship.

Psalm - Reghan Kearney

Chat - Emily M

Acolyte - Addie Aldinger

Psalm - Addie Aldinger

Chat - Elizabeth McFadden