We are called, right now, to make our mark on the face of history. Many a preacher will begin their remarks with words something like: We are living in difficult…
Sermons
He was sitting on a park bench. He was holding a simple cardboard sign that read Willing to Listen. A woman in her middle years was walking by and noticed…
READING ~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu & His Holiness the 14th Dalia Lama “Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are…
Reading ~ “Remembering Well” ~ Paul S. Sawyer The first time I ever played “Taps” was at summer camp when I was ten years old. That was the year I started…
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.” ― Lao Tzu READING: Mother - -…
READING from the Gospel of Luke Chapter 19 Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem 41 As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, 42 saying, “If you, even you, had only…
READING ~ Hebrew Scripture Isaiah 11:6 (New Revised Standard Version) Isaiah 11:6 6 The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and…
READING Grandmothers Counsel the World; Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet. By Carol Schaefer with a Foreword by Winona Laduke. Boston: Trumpeter Books, 2006. The old people used…
READING ~ from the wisdom of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers "Today's civilization has been cut loose from the essential roots that formed humanity," says Grandmother Bernadette. …
The affront to our sensitivities, and we are only beginning to endure and suffer this, is an assault on what we know to be one of our highest values—personal life.…

