Friends we're going
to press, ok,
to posting,
a bit early this week.
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Dear All of Us,
Sometimes people tell us,
"There's good news and
there's bad news"
and then they ask,
"Which do you want first?"
For me it's lets deal
with the bad new first
to get it out of the way
and end up happy
with the good news.
So, yes, there's
some bad news.
Happily there is
unending good news
and
we get to tell it
by our living it.
The trauma inherited
from
The First Folks,
their boys,
and
terribly many more since,
plagues us and all Creation
for sad sure
BUT
As they say in
the hills and "hollers"
of
Kentucky,
"We gonna whop it."
Paul puts it
a tad differently:
"If God is for us,
who can be against us? ...
Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ."
Romans 8:31b,35
Whoever,
however
the wording,
we now are
the ones
to do the
TELLING
of
The Good
News.
We do that by
our aliveness
together in
Christ Jesus.
We do that
in word and way of life.
We are so darn lucky
to be enlivened
and able to enliven.
You, and I hope I,
get to be the
walking, talking,
Telling
of
The Good News.
Mostly it happens
as we do.
A couple
hang on tight
when their marriage
hits a rough stretch.
Some young people apply
their effort and talent
for the Common Good
rather than just for
their own cash stash.
We carry the crippled,
be it body, mind or spirit.
We mix it up with
the extraordinary
right here in what's
mistaken and missed
as "just ordinary" -
God present and
active in
singing some
good old-time hymns,
having a beer
with a friend,
marveling at the
produce plenty
at the
Farmers' Market,
learning how
to drive
a stick shift,
melting at
a baby's smile,
zipping along
on the subway,
watching city kids
play stick ball,
having a clean
pair of socks
to put on
in the morning,
watching God
pop in our garden,
taking an online trip
with Rick Steves,
learning how to
decline Latin nouns
having a supper
every evening,
and for many of us
that with a family.
We stick our necks
and more out
to champion,
to hang out with,
to advocate for
the local odd balls
and left outs.
We welcome
their inclusion
in our social groupings.
A potpourri of us
blend and bond
in a for real,
sweaty/sweet
community
as
The Gathered.
As church we live
Jesus the Christ
caring for each other,
the needs about us,
deep diving
into divine intimacy.
We use what we need
and share the rest.
We have a start
on that wonderful
Kin Domain
of
God
and go with it we do!
It gets so good that
more and more we are
Jesus dressed up as us.
Well, better yet,
"I live now not I,
but Christ lives in me"
Galatians 2:20
Who we are,
how we are,
makes present
and personal
The Gospel
People see us and
our gang coming
and they feel,
"Here comes
good news"
A positive plus
for sure,
for good,
lots of both
You know,
it all comes down,
up,
upside down,
right side up
to
"Be as shrewd
as snakes
and as innocent
as a doves."
Jesus
Matthew 10:16
We notice the dark.
We live the light.
We don't quit
for the mess
of the masses.
We see and be
Good News
God Love
right in our
neighborhood.
We joyously
live a singing of it,
We've a Story
to Tell
the Nations,
"that shall turn
their hearts to the right,
a story of truth and mercy,
a story peace and light, ...
For the darkness
shall turn to dawning,
and the dawning to
noon-day bright, and
Christ's great king-dom
shall come on earth,
the king-dom of
love and light."
United Methodist
Hymnal
# 569
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