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Pregnant With Hope
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Before we get to Isaiah's vision of a new kingdom,
we need to go back to the garden of Eden. Picture a garden, a healthy, fertile garden. In the spring there's asparagus, in the
summer there are tomatoes, in autumn - apples.
The winter – well, cabbage. Maybe the garden has walkways of butterfly bushes
and a pond with fish and frogs.
The good ol' days.
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Our text said blessed are
those – Some translations say happy are those – Content is actual more true to
the Hebrew meaning. Contented are those
– who delight themselves in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and
night.
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Jesus
is at the river Jordan – dozens of people watching him get baptized, just as he
comes out of the water, there's some noise from the heavens. One of the gospels says it sounded like
thunder. Did
you hear that? Oh Lord have mercy, everyone
out of the water. And then this light,
shaped like a dove falls from the sky onto Jesus' wet face.
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Be playful. Jesus instructs us to be playful. When we are playful, we
are given the chance to see the kingdom of God. When we are playful, we
are able to break down walls that our responsibilities and obligations
have erected.
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When you make bread dough, the punching down and
the kneading is what makes the gluten strands.
Gluten strands holds bread together, gives it shape and promotes
elasticity. A few years ago, I discovered a book that claimed
to make artisan bread in five minutes a day.
Its secret is to eliminate all the punching down and kneading – and
instead, add more water.
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Yesterday would've been Jim Henson's 75th birthday. Jim Henson, a puppeteer, director and
producer was best known for creating the Muppets. Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie the Bear, Gonzo,
Beeker, the Swedish Chef... In his eulogy, his son said that "if you asked him how a movie would
turn out, he’d say, "It’ll be what this group can make, and if you changed any
one of us, it would be a different movie.”
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Occasionally
Pete will ask me – if church wasn't your job, what would we do Sunday mornings?
My first answer is always this – We'd sit on the couch at the First Church of
the NY Times where the coffee time is during service.
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Get
ready for a very long narrative... If it's not offensive to you, you
may choose to play the Soprano's soundtrack in the background. This is
the overall narrative of 2 Samuel - the entire book. There are large
narratives left out of this telling only because we have already covered
them previously.
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We're
in week 7 of "David,” - I asked the rabbi at the Jewish temple why
Moses is a more prominent figure in Judaism than David. His answer was
that David is the future – Moses is the past. David is the Messiah
figure.
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As
way of getting us on the same page – the Bible is not a history book.
It is a story book. These stories are written and told by people who
are making sense of their relationship with God. It is a human telling
of the history of the sacred – and it is authoritative to us as those
who believe.
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