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Love and Marriage
The Rev. John Gunn (other)In this Episode of Be Still and Know, The Rev. John R Gunn discusses the topic of building a strong marriage. He writes, "physical attraction has its necessary place and romance has its value, but unless we have with these a genuine compatibility of temperament and some loyalty to common principles, the chances are that marriage cannot endure."
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Fish and Eggs, Snakes and Scorpions
Luke 11:1013
Proper 12 (17) - Year C
July 25, 2010
The Rev. Dr. Graham Walker, Jr. (CBF)"As he finished praying, one of his disciples said, 'Lord teach us to pray as John taught his disciples to pray.'" The disciple approaches Jesus as a matter of observation and comparison.
This one disciple articulates what we all know privately within ourselves; we are an ambiguous construction of earth and spirit. We are as grounded as the adamah (the red clay) out of which we are drawn and we are as free as the nephesh (the wind) that fills our lungs. We are grounded spirits, the middle point of creation as Plato describes us. One testimony to this inner ambiguity is our felt anxiety over how we should then live. There seems to be no inner gyroscope to provide balance and orientation in our human life.
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