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Geoff Wood Reflection for September 4, 2016

Posted on August 30, 2016 by srdianne

Labor Day             Since our world has become digital, since we can move mountains by simply playing upon a keyboard, does the word labor apply nowadays?  Labor in the sense of sweat, lifting, pushing, dragging, using hand tools, shovels . … Continue reading →

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Geoff Wood Reflection for August 28, 2016

Posted on August 29, 2016 by srdianne

The mind of a sage appreciates proverbs.  Sirach 3: 28              Proverbs were the principal method by which the youth of biblical times were taught how to live ethically and successfully.  Written educational materials were hard to come by in … Continue reading →

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Reflection for August 24, 2016

Posted on August 25, 2016 by srdianne

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that what no one has dared to wish for may for once spring clear without my contriving. If this is arrogant, … Continue reading →

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Reflection for August 17, 2016

Posted on August 19, 2016 by srdianne

When Things Fall Apart Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.  We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problems, but the truth is that things don’t … Continue reading →

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Reflection for August 10, 2016

Posted on August 15, 2016 by srdianne

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and … Continue reading →

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Geoff Wood Reflection for August 14, 2016

Posted on August 15, 2016 by srdianne

If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits? Emma Bombeck             The Bible is not meant to be read as simply a history book.  It’s more along the line of poetry, saga, drama … Continue reading →

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Geoff Wood Reflection for August 7, 2016

Posted on August 2, 2016 by srdianne

Imagination is funny / it makes a cloudy day sunny . . .             In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 novel The House of the Seven Gables we meet a young man named Holgrave who in a fit of frustration cries out:  … Continue reading →

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Reflection for July 27, 2016

Posted on July 27, 2016 by srdianne

Thanks Robert Frost Do you have hope for the future? Someone asked Robert Frost, toward the end. Yes, and even for the past, he repled, that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was, something … Continue reading →

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Geoff Wood Reflection for July 31, 2016

Posted on July 26, 2016 by srdianne

Even after we have experienced the worst, why do we find it so hard to convince ourselves there’s nothing worth living for?             It’s a wonder that the Book of Ecclesiastes, from which our first reading is taken, ever made … Continue reading →

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Reflection for July 20, 2016

Posted on July 21, 2016 by srdianne

Santiago The road seen, then not seen, the hillside hiding then revealing the way you should take, the road dropping away from you as if leaving you to walk on thin air, then catching you, holding you up, when you … Continue reading →

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