[Propertalk] Fwd: [propertalk.topic] Sermon for Advent 4B

[robertpmorrison at charter.net]

Thanks for the sermon, Judy.

Just as a question I ask, were I preaching this Sunday, would I think 
and comment on the fact that there are times in our lives when love, 
excitement, invitation to participate with someone whom we hold 
especially dear, is such a blessing that while we feel unable to tell 
everyone what is going on in our lives, we simply can't contain the 
overwhelming joy of being part of something of God that we have to share 
it with someone - with the one person we feel we can trust? So Mary goes 
to Elizabeth ... to work out her feelings, to try to decipher what God 
wants of her, to see how her news affects her relationship with Joseph, 
with her neighbours in Nazareth, with everyone else in the known 
universe. Butterfly wing effect - a butterfly flapping its wings in one 
hemisphere brings about weather pattern changes half a world away. What 
Mary said two thousand years ago is affecting us today, and will affect 
all those who come, even to the end of time.

Just some thoughts ... perhaps "freer" because I don't have to preach 
them, out loud at any rate! 8 - )

Bob

Robert P Morrison
Interim Vicar
The Episcopal Church of St Alban
PO Box 1556
Albany OR  97321   541-921-1076 (cell)
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