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Latest Martha Sterne Blog Articles
Lamar Amburn's and the Reign of God
The Rev. Martha Sterne (TEC)The center of the universe in Maryville, Tennessee, as far as I am concerned, is Lamar Amburn's vegetable market which is one block over from my former parish church. I thought about Lamar's this week because the gospel is all about people using and not using talents. I wish Jesus had dropped by Lamar's before he went negative on the man who buried his talent in the ground; it might have given our Savior a whole different perspective.
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After
The Rev. Martha Sterne (TEC)Our son and his wife got married ten years ago in her aunt's parish church in lower Manhattan on October 13, 2001. It was always to be a simple wedding - just family including grandparents, aunts and uncles and selected first cousins, and of course Charles and Christine's closest friends. It was always to be a simple wedding - less than 100. But after the planes hit - once we found out they were still alive - she worked in the financial district and he on 34th - in the shock and profound grief of the days after 9/11, their wedding got a lot simpler. Such as Could it happen? The hotel where half the people were to stay - damaged, closed. Such as Should people come? Should our relatives - some old and some with little children - from Georgia and Mississippi and Ireland and Colorado and Arizona and Louisiana and England and DC- have to get on a plane and come to this small thing, this simple wedding.
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