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After more than a few conversations with folks this past week, it has become increasingly evident to me that many of us hate turning on the news. When I have asked the question, “How are things with you?” the answer has increasingly become, “I am good if I can ignore the news.” People are tired of the onslaught of bad news.
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For some reason, this week has me thinking about gifts and what Heri Nouwen said about them.
A gift only becomes a gift when it is received; and nothing we have to give—wealth, talents, competence, or just beauty— will ever be recognized as true gifts until someone is open to accept them. This all suggests that if we want others to grow— that is, to discover their potential and capacities, to experience that they have something to live and work for—we should first of all be able to recognize their gifts and be willing to receive them. For we only become fully human when we are received and accepted. See you Sunday! Peace, Travis Segar Pastor for Care and Community  A pastor tells a story about his professor in seminary. In class one day he gave his students a challenge. He had one of the students read 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 out loud to the class.
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Lessons you learn at camp:
It should have been a small matter between neighbors. It should have easily been discussed and easily resolved. But unfortunately, it wasn’t.
It all started with a home improvement project. A backyard do-it-yourself project that started on the weekend. Then the rain comes up and a muddy mess is created. That muddy mess then unexpectedly moves into the neighbor’s yard. Then to the neighbor's patio and sidewalk. |
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