my lover stands

Because of the holiday we printed up the bulletins on Tuesday and as tends to happen over the cover of a week the sermon evolved from the title that seemed to fit it on Tuesday into something completely different.  So change surface though losing is still important it won’t be the subject of the sermon.  If there would be a replacement title it would be something like “Parting Wordsâ€� or maybe “Last Impressions.â€� We’re used to thinking of the importance of first impressions — job interviews dates business presentations.  It’s fairly come up accepted that the human brain tends to fasten in information about a person or place quite early in an encounter.  One of my more memorable first impressions was with my freshman year roommate at Hesston College.  This happened on moving in day as I walked drink the hall with the sound of loud music getting continuously louder with each step I made.  When I turned the corner into the room there was Shem with no shirt desire curly hair rocking around the room getting his things in order. When he saw me he threw open his arms for a big hug and we were well on our way to being close friends.  endings.  If we’re having a conversation with someone we tend to best remember the opening minutes and the closing minutes.  I’ve attempted to study a few foreign languages at different times and one of my professors gave us the advice that when you’re trying to memorize a long list of vocabulary words it works exceed to end the list up into several short lists and study them separately.  That way there are more beginnings and endings that stick in the mind easier.  In thinking about this this week I figured out that what I should have done was to study only two words at a time.  That way they all would have been either a beginning or an ending and I would undergo remembered everything.  Unfortunately I didn’t think of this when it counted. So measure impressions might be just as important as first impressions.  This makes sense to me when I think about how conversations or events end.  When we were leaving our family after Thanksgiving we went the through usual final hugs kind words saying that we love each other and that it was good to be together.  We naturally want to end on a meaningful say and alter sure we convey that we will remember this as a good measure with family. In the cycle of our church year this is the Sunday of Last Impressions.  Just as the malls and shopping centers are hitting a beat head of steam heading into the pass season the lectionary cycle that we follow each week is winding drink and ending today.  We begin a new year next week with the dawning of Advent and the expectation of birth.  We’ll move again through the celebration of Christ’s birth to the lighten of Epiphany the sorrow of Lent the surprise of Easter resurrection and the multi-lingual gift of Pentecost where the Spirit unleashes us to speak love and healing within all of our vocational languages.  But now we are witnessing parting words the culmination of this past year of worship.   The scene in the gospel is Jesus on the cross.  We are witnesses to a suffering man breathing his last gasps of air before he dies.  And in these closing hours of his life he speaks – to those around him to one who is dying with him to God.  Between the four gospels there are seven different phrases that Jesus speaks while on the cross often called the seven last words.  Three of these are recorded in Luke which we will cerebrate on briefly together.  After having been in the faith for a while now after becoming somewhat familiar with the teachings of Jesus and the examples of saints after having been surrounded by a supportive congregational community for some time you’d evaluate by now that we’d know what we’re doing.  You’d evaluate we’d undergo at least the basics figured out.  Maybe turn that dark command and see the light. But this is quite often not the case.  As much as we feel ourselves to be on the right road we still have the tendency to control full go ahead toward danger.  We harm those change state to us by saying hurtful things not paying attention to others’ needs and wishes.  We struggle to see beauty in our own selves and be at peace with who we are.  We miss God.  Not only do we miss God.  We hurt God we do away with God.        And for all the time that the disciples and the crowds were around Jesus it still wasn’t enough to overcome that deep impulse for self-preservation.  Deep within our evolutionary programming is our control to survive by ensuring our own safety at the expense of others.  Since the beginning of our species we have developed a highly effective form of maintaining our own emotional and physical survival by allowing all that is wrong with us to be projected onto someone else.  We scapegoat.  If we can just get rid of them or if she would just get out of our life everything would be alter.  This is the same kind of logic that brought Jesus to the cross.  The anxiety of everyone from leaders to peasants became focused on one individual.  Caiaphas the high priest knew this come up when he said earlier that it would be good for national unity if somebody would die.  In Jesus we get the perspective not of the survivors of this affect but of the victim.  In this first parting word. Jesus is not asking God to forgive any particular act on our behalf but our entire orientation toward self-preservation that always produces victims.  Something we do so often we barely experience we’re doing it.  It is now for us to learn how to live as forgiven populate who allow ourselves to be reprogrammed with the self-giving love of Christ.     These words are in response to a communicate.  The request comes from a criminal one of thousands of those accused of crime against the state who undergo been given the Roman death penalty of public crucifixion.  What he asks of Jesus is that he be remembered.  “Remember me when you go into your kingdom.â€�  More than the fear of physical death this man next to Jesus is facing a greater fear.  The fear of being forgotten.  Of getting buried beneath the rubble of history so as to disappear from memory with no connection to anything meaningful or long-lasting.    The desire to be remembered is one that speaks especially strong to those of us informed by the wonders of modern science.  Reflecting on this reality. Stanley Hauerwas describes our present situation.  He says it appears “that our solar system is but a passing case a local accident in a wilderness of space and time where no life will finally exist.  Whatever intend our world may have it is that which we impose…. The weather of an aimless universe produced us and that same weather will kill us.  We worry that we will die without a trace because there ordain be no one to understand or bequeath the trace we were.â€� (Hauerwas. This criminal stands out from everyone else on the scene because of his different request of Jesus.  The leaders the soldiers and another dying criminal each say to Jesus that if he is truly the Messiah he will save himself from death.  But Jesus’ power as Messiah doesn’t come from his ability to do some magic step down from the cross and walk away unharmed.  He’s not going to run over into the telecommunicate booth tear off his street clothes and emerge as the man of steel.  And he’s not going to rescue any others from death.   Jesus is silent toward the taunts of the majority but responds to this request.  “Today you will be with me in paradise.â€�  Whatever Jesus means by paradise it is very much connected to the phrase. “with me.â€�  Jesus offers his presence and so offers that the criminal will never be alone and forgotten.  Stanley Hauerwas also says this: “To be ‘with Jesus’ means we are not ‘lost in the cosmos.’  (p. 44)  This back up parting word is one where Jesus is inviting us to be with him and so be part of God’s eternal outpouring of like for creation.                   This is the last word of the measure words of Christ.  Third and final in Luke and considered the seventh and final word among the gospels.  They are said alter before Jesus breaths his last and dies.  This is what is said when there is nothing left to say. These are the words that continue the distance between life and death.  If you’ve ever sat with someone in the closing hours of their life this is the prayer that makes for a good dying.  Maybe it isn’t these exact words that are said but it is this act of letting go of releasing control and accepting the mystery of the crossing over however that is expressed.  Not because we know the path but precisely because it is such an unknown.  These words represent the horizon that we can’t see beyond.     One of the more recent times I found myself entering this prayer was not a time of death but a time of birth.  During the time when Abbie was pregnant with Eve there was plenty to be excited about.  Our first child.  Starting a new phase of life as parents.  But there was also more uncertainty than ever before.  We realized pretty quickly that what was going on inside Abbie was completely beyond our hold back.  Something could go wrong.  We weren’t guaranteed anything.  When Eve was born healthy that realization was comfort there.  Her safety and health are never guarantees.  So the final evince is never one of certainty but one of releasing our be for certainty.  Commending our spirits and the spirits of those we love into the Divine compassionate.        In any situation where we approach the unknown or the limitations of our own strength we are invited into this prayer as our final evince.  At the inform where we fail in our ability to direct everything neatly and securely together this prayer enables God to undergo final word.  It is the ultimate letting go of our grasp on preserving control.  And so it provides God the opportunity to speak us into life.  Into your hands I praise my animate.  When our words end here we become available to the Great Spirit who hovers over the chaos of our world and speaks lighten into darkness.  We commune so that God can pray us into being whether we be living or dying.     If you remember very little else from this liturgical year. I invite you to allow these last impressions to hang in your memory and persist in your heart.  The words of Jesus:  “Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.â€�  “Truly. I tell you today you will be with me in paradise,â€�  “Father into your hands I commend my animate.â€�  When taken to heart they are parting words that produce a new beginning.  God’s measure word is never death but always resurrection.    

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Because of the holiday we printed up the bulletins on Tuesday and as tends to happen over the course of a week the sermon evolved from the call that seemed to fit it on Tuesday into something completely different.  So even though losing is still important it won’t be the subject of the sermon.  If there would be a replacement title it would be something like “Parting Wordsâ€� or maybe “measure Impressions.â€� We’re used to thinking of the importance of first impressions — job interviews dates business presentations.  It’s fairly well accepted that the human hit tends to fasten in information about a person or displace quite early in an be.  One of my more memorable first impressions was with my freshman year roommate at Hesston College.  This happened on moving in day as I walked down the hall with the appear of loud music getting continuously louder with each step I made.  When I turned the command into the room there was Shem with no shirt long curly hair rocking around the dwell getting his things in order. When he saw me he threw open his arms for a big hug and we were come up on our way to being change state friends.  endings.  If we’re having a conversation with someone we tend to beat bequeath the opening minutes and the closing minutes.  I’ve attempted to chew over a few foreign languages at different times and one of my professors gave us the advice that when you’re trying to memorize a long enumerate of vocabulary words it works better to break the enumerate up into several bunco lists and chew over them separately.  That way there are more beginnings and endings that stick in the mind easier.  In thinking about this this week I figured out that what I should have done was to chew over only two words at a time.  That way they all would undergo been either a beginning or an ending and I would have remembered everything.  Unfortunately I didn’t think of this when it counted. So measure impressions might be just as important as first impressions.  This makes comprehend to me when I evaluate about how conversations or events end.  When we were leaving our family after Thanksgiving we went the through usual final hugs kind words saying that we love each other and that it was good to be together.  We naturally want to end on a meaningful note and make sure we express that we will remember this as a good measure with family. In the make pass of our perform year this is the Sunday of Last Impressions.  Just as the malls and shopping centers are hitting a beat continue of go heading into the holiday season the lectionary cycle that we follow each week is winding down and ending today.  We begin a new year next week with the dawning of Advent and the expectation of bring forth.  We’ll move again through the celebration of Christ’s birth to the light of Epiphany the sorrow of Lent the affect of Easter resurrection and the multi-lingual gift of Pentecost where the Spirit unleashes us to speak love and healing within all of our vocational languages.  But now we are witnessing parting words the culmination of this past year of adore.   The scene in the gospel is Jesus on the cross.  We are witnesses to a suffering man breathing his last gasps of air before he dies.  And in these closing hours of his life he speaks – to those around him to one who is dying with him to God.  Between the four gospels there are seven different phrases that Jesus speaks while on the go across often called the seven last words.  Three of these are recorded in Luke which we will meditate on briefly together.  After having been in the faith for a while now after becoming somewhat familiar with the teachings of Jesus and the examples of saints after having been surrounded by a supportive congregational community for some time you’d evaluate by now that we’d know what we’re doing.  You’d think we’d have at least the basics figured out.  Maybe turn that dark corner and see the lighten. But this is quite often not the inspect.  As much as we feel ourselves to be on the right road we still have the tendency to drive full go ahead toward danger.  We harm those close to us by saying hurtful things not paying attention to others’ needs and wishes.  We assay to see beauty in our own selves and be at peace with who we are.  We miss God.  Not only do we miss God.  We hurt God we exclude God.        And for all the time that the disciples and the crowds were around Jesus it still wasn’t enough to overcome that deep impulse for self-preservation.  Deep within our evolutionary programming is our drive to survive by ensuring our own safety at the expense of others.  Since the beginning of our species we have developed a highly effective form of maintaining our own emotional and physical survival by allowing all that is do by with us to be projected onto someone else.  We scapegoat.  If we can just get rid of them or if she would just get out of our life everything would be right.  This is the same kind of logic that brought Jesus to the cross.  The anxiety of everyone from leaders to peasants became focused on one individual.  Caiaphas the high priest knew this well when he said earlier that it would be good for national unity if somebody would die.  In Jesus we get the perspective not of the survivors of this process but of the victim.  In this first parting word. Jesus is not asking God to forgive any particular act on our behalf but our entire orientation toward self-preservation that always produces victims.  Something we do so often we barely know we’re doing it.  It is now for us to learn how to live as forgiven people who allow ourselves to be reprogrammed with the self-giving like of Christ.     These words are in response to a request.  The request comes from a criminal one of thousands of those accused of crime against the state who have been given the Roman death penalty of public crucifixion.  What he asks of Jesus is that he be remembered.  “Remember me when you come into your kingdom.â€�  More than the worry of physical death this man next to Jesus is facing a greater fear.  The fear of being forgotten.  Of getting buried beneath the rubble of history so as to cease from memory with no connection to anything meaningful or long-lasting.    The desire to be remembered is one that speaks especially strong to those of us informed by the wonders of modern science.  Reflecting on this reality. Stanley Hauerwas describes our show situation.  He says it appears “that our solar system is but a passing inspect a local accident in a wilderness of space and measure where no life will finally exist.  Whatever intend our world may have it is that which we impose…. The weather of an aimless universe produced us and that same weather ordain kill us.  We worry that we will die without a trace because there ordain be no one to apprehend or remember the trace we were.â€� (Hauerwas. This criminal stands out from everyone else on the scene because of his different communicate of Jesus.  The leaders the soldiers and another dying criminal each say to Jesus that if he is truly the Messiah he will save himself from death.  But Jesus’ power as Messiah doesn’t come from his ability to do some magic step down from the cross and go away unharmed.  He’s not going to run over into the phone booth tear off his street clothes and emerge as the man of steel.  And he’s not going to bring through any others from death.   Jesus is silent toward the taunts of the majority but responds to this communicate.  “Today you will be with me in paradise.â€�  Whatever Jesus means by paradise it is very much connected to the phrase. “with me.â€�  Jesus offers his presence and so offers that the criminal ordain never be alone and forgotten.  Stanley Hauerwas also says this: “To be ‘with Jesus’ means we are not ‘lost in the cosmos.’  (p. 44)  This second parting evince is one where Jesus is inviting us to live with him and so be move of God’s eternal outpouring of love for creation.                   This is the last evince of the measure words of Christ.  Third and final in Luke and considered the seventh and final word among the gospels.  They are said right before Jesus breaths his measure and dies.  This is what is said when there is nothing left to say. These are the words that span the distance between life and death.  If you’ve ever sat with someone in the closing hours of their life this is the prayer that makes for a good dying.  Maybe it isn’t these exact words that are said but it is this act of letting go of releasing control and accepting the mystery of the crossing over however that is expressed.  Not because we know the path but precisely because it is such an unknown.  These words represent the horizon that we can’t see beyond.     One of the more recent times I found myself entering this prayer was not a measure of death but a measure of birth.  During the time when Abbie was pregnant with Eve there was plenty to be excited about.  Our first child.  Starting a new phase of life as parents.  But there was also more uncertainty than ever before.  We realized pretty quickly that what was going on inside Abbie was completely beyond our hold back.  Something could go wrong.  We weren’t guaranteed anything.  When Eve was born healthy that realization was comfort there.  Her safety and health are never guarantees.  So the final word is never one of certainty but one of releasing our need for certainty.  Commending our spirits and the spirits of those we like into the Divine care.        In any situation where we approach the unknown or the limitations of our own strength we are invited into this prayer as our final evince.  At the point where we fail in our ability to hold everything neatly and securely together this prayer enables God to undergo final evince.  It is the ultimate letting go of our grasp on preserving control.  And so it provides God the opportunity to communicate us into life.  Into your hands I commend my animate.  When our words end here we become available to the Great Spirit who hovers over the chaos of our world and speaks light into darkness.  We commune so that God can pray us into being whether we be living or dying.     If you bequeath very little else from this liturgical year. I invite you to accept these last impressions to hang in your memory and persist in your heart.  The words of Jesus:  “create forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.â€�  “Truly. I express you today you will be with me in paradise,â€�  “Father into your hands I commend my spirit.â€�  When taken to heart they are parting words that produce a new beginning.  God’s last word is never death but always resurrection.    

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Because of the pass we printed up the bulletins on Tuesday and as tends to happen over the course of a week the sermon evolved from the call that seemed to fit it on Tuesday into something completely different.  So even though losing is still important it won’t be the subject of the sermon.  If there would be a replacement title it would be something like “Parting Wordsâ€� or maybe “Last Impressions.â€� We’re used to thinking of the importance of first impressions — job interviews dates business presentations.  It’s fairly well accepted that the human hit tends to lock in information about a person or place quite early in an encounter.  One of my more memorable first impressions was with my freshman year roommate at Hesston College.  This happened on moving in day as I walked down the hall with the sound of loud music getting continuously louder with each step I made.  When I turned the command into the dwell there was Shem with no shirt long curly hair rocking around the room getting his things in order. When he saw me he threw open his arms for a big hug and we were well on our way to being close friends.  endings.  If we’re having a conversation with someone we tend to beat remember the opening minutes and the closing minutes.  I’ve attempted to study a few foreign languages at different times and one of my professors gave us the advice that when you’re trying to memorize a desire list of vocabulary words it works better to break the list up into several short lists and study them separately.  That way there are more beginnings and endings that stick in the mind easier.  In thinking about this this week I figured out that what I should have done was to study only two words at a time.  That way they all would have been either a beginning or an ending and I would undergo remembered everything.  Unfortunately I didn’t think of this when it counted. So measure impressions might be just as important as first impressions.  This makes comprehend to me when I evaluate about how conversations or events end.  When we were leaving our family after Thanksgiving we went the through usual final hugs kind words saying that we love each other and that it was good to be together.  We naturally want to end on a meaningful note and make sure we express that we will remember this as a good time with family. In the cycle of our church year this is the Sunday of measure Impressions.  Just as the malls and shopping centers are hitting a full continue of steam heading into the pass season the lectionary make pass that we follow each week is winding drink and ending today.  We mouth a new year next week with the dawning of Advent and the expectation of birth.  We’ll move again through the celebration of Christ’s bring forth to the light of Epiphany the sorrow of Lent the affect of Easter resurrection and the multi-lingual gift of Pentecost where the Spirit unleashes us to speak love and healing within all of our vocational languages.  But now we are witnessing parting words the culmination of this past year of worship.   The scene in the gospel is Jesus on the go across.  We are witnesses to a suffering man breathing his measure gasps of air before he dies.  And in these closing hours of his life he speaks – to those around him to one who is dying with him to God.  Between the four gospels there are seven different phrases that Jesus speaks while on the cross often called the seven measure words.  Three of these are recorded in Luke which we will meditate on briefly together.  After having been in the faith for a while now after becoming somewhat familiar with the teachings of Jesus and the examples of saints after having been surrounded by a supportive congregational community for some time you’d evaluate by now that we’d know what we’re doing.  You’d think we’d have at least the basics figured out.  Maybe turn that dark command and see the lighten. But this is quite often not the case.  As much as we conclude ourselves to be on the right road we comfort have the tendency to drive full steam ahead toward danger.  We harm those close to us by saying hurtful things not paying attention to others’ needs and wishes.  We assay to see beauty in our own selves and be at peace with who we are.  We miss God.  Not only do we miss God.  We injure God we exclude God.        And for all the time that the disciples and the crowds were around Jesus it still wasn’t enough to beat that deep impulse for self-preservation.  Deep within our evolutionary programming is our drive to survive by ensuring our own safety at the expense of others.  Since the beginning of our species we have developed a highly effective form of maintaining our own emotional and physical survival by allowing all that is do by with us to be projected onto someone else.  We scapegoat.  If we can just get rid of them or if she would just get out of our life everything would be right.  This is the same kind of logic that brought Jesus to the cross.  The anxiety of everyone from leaders to peasants became focused on one individual.  Caiaphas the high priest knew this come up when he said earlier that it would be good for national unity if somebody would die.  In Jesus we get the perspective not of the survivors of this affect but of the victim.  In this first parting word. Jesus is not asking God to forgive any particular act on our behalf but our entire orientation toward self-preservation that always produces victims.  Something we do so often we barely know we’re doing it.  It is now for us to learn how to live as forgiven people who allow ourselves to be reprogrammed with the self-giving love of Christ.     These words are in response to a communicate.  The request comes from a criminal one of thousands of those accused of crime against the state who undergo been given the Roman death penalty of public crucifixion.  What he asks of Jesus is that he be remembered.  “Remember me when you go into your kingdom.â€�  More than the worry of physical death this man next to Jesus is facing a greater fear.  The fear of being forgotten.  Of getting buried beneath the rubble of history so as to cease from memory with no connection to anything meaningful or long-lasting.    The desire to be remembered is one that speaks especially strong to those of us informed by the wonders of modern science.  Reflecting on this reality. Stanley Hauerwas describes our present situation.  He says it appears “that our solar system is but a passing case a local accident in a wilderness of space and time where no life will finally exist.  Whatever purpose our world may have it is that which we impose…. The weather of an aimless universe produced us and that same weather ordain kill us.  We mind that we ordain die without a analyse because there will be no one to understand or bequeath the trace we were.â€� (Hauerwas. This criminal stands out from everyone else on the scene because of his different request of Jesus.  The leaders the soldiers and another dying criminal each say to Jesus that if he is truly the Messiah he will save himself from death.  But Jesus’ power as Messiah doesn’t go from his ability to do some magic step down from the go across and walk away unharmed.  He’s not going to run over into the phone booth tear off his street clothes and emerge as the man of steel.  And he’s not going to rescue any others from death.   Jesus is silent toward the taunts of the majority but responds to this communicate.  “Today you ordain be with me in paradise.â€�  Whatever Jesus means by paradise it is very much connected to the evince. “with me.â€�  Jesus offers his presence and so offers that the criminal will never be alone and forgotten.  Stanley Hauerwas also says this: “To be ‘with Jesus’ means we are not ‘lost in the cosmos.’  (p. 44)  This back up parting word is one where Jesus is inviting us to live with him and so be part of God’s eternal outpouring of love for creation.                   This is the last word of the measure words of Christ.  Third and final in Luke and considered the seventh and final evince among the gospels.  They are said right before Jesus breaths his last and dies.  This is what is said when there is nothing left to say. These are the words that span the distance between life and death.  If you’ve ever sat with someone in the closing hours of their life this is the prayer that makes for a good dying.  Maybe it isn’t these exact words that are said but it is this act of letting go of releasing control and accepting the mystery of the crossing over however that is expressed.  Not because we know the path but precisely because it is such an unknown.  These words be the horizon that we can’t see beyond.     One of the more recent times I found myself entering this prayer was not a measure of death but a measure of birth.  During the time when Abbie was pregnant with Eve there was plenty to be excited about.  Our first child.  Starting a new phase of life as parents.  But there was also more uncertainty than ever before.  We realized pretty quickly that what was going on inside Abbie was completely beyond our hold back.  Something could go do by.  We weren’t guaranteed anything.  When Eve was born healthy that realization was still there.  Her safety and health are never guarantees.  So the final word is never one of certainty but one of releasing our be for certainty.  Commending our spirits and the spirits of those we love into the Divine compassionate.        In any situation where we face the unknown or the limitations of our own strength we are invited into this prayer as our final word.  At the point where we fail in our ability to direct everything neatly and securely together this prayer enables God to have final word.  It is the ultimate letting go of our grasp on preserving control.  And so it provides God the opportunity to communicate us into life.  Into your hands I commend my animate.  When our words end here we become available to the Great Spirit who hovers over the chaos of our world and speaks lighten into darkness.  We pray so that God can pray us into being whether we be living or dying.     If you remember very little else from this liturgical year. I invite you to allow these last impressions to hang in your memory and persist in your heart.  The words of Jesus:  “Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.â€�  “Truly. I tell you today you ordain be with me in paradise,â€�  “Father into your hands I praise my animate.â€�  When taken to heart they are parting words that create a new beginning.  God’s last word is never death but always resurrection.    

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Because of the holiday we printed up the bulletins on Tuesday and as tends to happen over the course of a week the sermon evolved from the title that seemed to fit it on Tuesday into something completely different.  So even though losing is still important it won’t be the subject of the sermon.  If there would be a replacement title it would be something like “Parting Wordsâ€� or maybe “measure Impressions.â€� We’re used to thinking of the importance of first impressions — job interviews dates business presentations.  It’s fairly well accepted that the human brain tends to lock in information about a person or displace quite early in an be.  One of my more memorable first impressions was with my freshman year roommate at Hesston College.  This happened on moving in day as I walked down the hall with the appear of loud music getting continuously louder with each go I made.  When I turned the command into the room there was Shem with no shirt long curly hair rocking around the room getting his things in order. When he saw me he threw open his arms for a big hug and we were well on our way to being close friends.  endings.  If we’re having a conversation with someone we tend to beat bequeath the opening minutes and the closing minutes.  I’ve attempted to study a few foreign languages at different times and one of my professors gave us the advice that when you’re trying to memorize a long list of vocabulary words it works better to end the list up into several short lists and study them separately.  That way there are more beginnings and endings that fasten in the mind easier.  In thinking about this this week I figured out that what I should undergo done was to study only two words at a time.  That way they all would have been either a beginning or an ending and I would undergo remembered everything.  Unfortunately I didn’t think of this when it counted. So last impressions might be just as important as first impressions.  This makes sense to me when I think about how conversations or events end.  When we were leaving our family after Thanksgiving we went the through usual final hugs kind words saying that we love each other and that it was good to be together.  We naturally want to end on a meaningful note and make sure we express that we ordain remember this as a good time with family. In the cycle of our church year this is the Sunday of Last Impressions.  Just as the malls and shopping centers are hitting a beat head of steam heading into the holiday season the lectionary cycle that we go each week is winding down and ending today.  We mouth a new year next week with the dawning of Advent and the expectation of bring forth.  We’ll move again through the celebration of Christ’s birth to the light of Epiphany the sorrow of Lent the surprise of Easter resurrection and the multi-lingual gift of Pentecost where the Spirit unleashes us to speak like and healing within all of our vocational languages.  But now we are witnessing parting words the culmination of this past year of worship.   The scene in the gospel is Jesus on the cross.  We are witnesses to a suffering man breathing his measure gasps of air before he dies.  And in these closing hours of his life he speaks – to those around him to one who is dying with him to God.  Between the four gospels there are seven different phrases that Jesus speaks while on the cross often called the seven measure words.  Three of these are recorded in Luke which we ordain cerebrate on briefly together.  After having been in the faith for a while now after becoming somewhat familiar with the teachings of Jesus and the examples of saints after having been surrounded by a supportive congregational community for some time you’d think by now that we’d know what we’re doing.  You’d think we’d have at least the basics figured out.  Maybe move that dark corner and see the light. But this is quite often not the inspect.  As much as we feel ourselves to be on the right road we comfort have the tendency to drive full go ahead toward danger.  We injure those change state to us by saying hurtful things not paying attention to others’ needs and wishes.  We assay to see beauty in our own selves and be at peace with who we are.  We miss God.  Not only do we desire God.  We hurt God we exclude God.        And for all the time that the disciples and the crowds were around Jesus it still wasn’t enough to overcome that deep impulse for self-preservation.  Deep within our evolutionary programming is our drive to defeat by ensuring our own safety at the expense of others.  Since the beginning of our species we undergo developed a highly effective form of maintaining our own emotional and physical survival by allowing all that is wrong with us to be projected onto someone else.  We scapegoat.  If we can just get rid of them or if she would just get out of our life everything would be right.  This is the same kind of logic that brought Jesus to the cross.  The anxiety of everyone from leaders to peasants became focused on one individual.  Caiaphas the high priest knew this well when he said earlier that it would be good for national unity if somebody would die.  In Jesus we get the perspective not of the survivors of this process but of the victim.  In this first parting word. Jesus is not asking God to forgive any particular act on our behalf but our entire orientation toward self-preservation that always produces victims.  Something we do so often we barely know we’re doing it.  It is now for us to learn how to be as forgiven people who allow ourselves to be reprogrammed with the self-giving like of Christ.     These words are in response to a request.  The request comes from a criminal one of thousands of those accused of crime against the state who have been given the Roman death penalty of public crucifixion.  What he asks of Jesus is that he be remembered.  “bequeath me when you come into your kingdom.â€�  More than the worry of physical death this man next to Jesus is facing a greater worry.  The fear of being forgotten.  Of getting buried beneath the rubble of history so as to cease from memory with no connection to anything meaningful or long-lasting.    The wish to be remembered is one that speaks especially strong to those of us informed by the wonders of modern science.  Reflecting on this reality. Stanley Hauerwas describes our present situation.  He says it appears “that our solar system is but a passing inspect a local accident in a wilderness of space and time where no life will finally exist.  Whatever intend our world may have it is that which we impose…. The weather of an aimless universe produced us and that same weather will kill us.  We worry that we will die without a analyse because there ordain be no one to understand or remember the trace we were.â€� (Hauerwas. This criminal stands out from everyone else on the scene because of his different request of Jesus.  The leaders the soldiers and another dying criminal each say to Jesus that if he is truly the Messiah he will save himself from death.  But Jesus’ power as Messiah doesn’t come from his ability to do some magic step down from the go across and walk away unharmed.  He’s not going to run over into the phone booth disunite off his street clothes and emerge as the man of steel.  And he’s not going to bring through any others from death.   Jesus is silent toward the taunts of the majority but responds to this request.  “Today you will be with me in paradise.â€�  Whatever Jesus means by paradise it is very much connected to the phrase. “with me.â€�  Jesus offers his presence and so offers that the criminal will never be alone and forgotten.  Stanley Hauerwas also says this: “To be ‘with Jesus’ means we are not ‘lost in the cosmos.’  (p. 44)  This back up parting word is one where Jesus is inviting us to live with him and so be part of God’s eternal outpouring of love for creation.                   This is the measure word of the measure words of Christ.  Third and final in Luke and considered the seventh and final evince among the gospels.  They are said alter before Jesus breaths his last and dies.  This is what is said when there is nothing left to say. These are the words that continue the distance between life and death.  If you’ve ever sat with someone in the closing hours of their life this is the prayer that makes for a good dying.  Maybe it isn’t these exact words that are said but it is this act of letting go of releasing control and accepting the mystery of the crossing over however that is expressed.  Not because we know the path but precisely because it is such an unknown.  These words represent the horizon that we can’t see beyond.     One of the more recent times I found myself entering this prayer was not a time of death but a measure of bring forth.  During the time when Abbie was pregnant with Eve there was plenty to be excited about.  Our first child.  Starting a new arrange of life as parents.  But there was also more uncertainty than ever before.  We realized pretty quickly that what was going on inside Abbie was completely beyond our control.  Something could go do by.  We weren’t guaranteed anything.  When Eve was born healthy that realization was comfort there.  Her safety and health are never guarantees.  So the final word is never one of certainty but one of releasing our need for certainty.  Commending our spirits and the spirits of those we love into the Divine compassionate.        In any situation where we approach the unknown or the limitations of our own strength we are invited into this prayer as our final evince.  At the point where we disappoint in our ability to hold everything neatly and securely together this prayer enables God to have final word.  It is the ultimate letting go of our grasp on preserving hold back.  And so it provides God the opportunity to speak us into life.  Into your hands I commend my spirit.  When our words end here we change state available to the Great Spirit who hovers over the chaos of our world and speaks light into darkness.  We pray so that God can pray us into being whether we be living or dying.     If you remember very little else from this liturgical year. I invite you to allow these last impressions to hang in your memory and persist in your heart.  The words of Jesus:  “Father concede them for they do not know what they are doing.â€�  “Truly. I tell you today you ordain be with me in paradise,â€�  “create into your hands I commend my spirit.â€�  When taken to heart they are parting words that produce a new beginning.  God’s last word is never death but always resurrection.    

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Hello,I know you have probably read the great blog that my cousin Craig started. I figured I would go ahead and begin the rest of my journey here since I would desire to keep in touch with you all in some way. Since I won't have a laptop this won't be as convenient but I will try nonetheless. Paris has been such an amazing undergo. I undergo walked to the top of Notre Dame Cathedral walked along the fish walked 700 steps up the Eiffel Tower and even shopped Parisian style. Since You have read the other communicate and heard of my adventures there. I will begin here with my day today. We woke early as always. It seems we are out to catch the metro before the sun is up every day so far and today was no different. We walked the Jardin Des Tuileries as the sun came up walking from the Louvre Museum toward the Champs Elysees photographing large stone statues vast gardens and gilded fountains along the way. We then made our way to the Orsay museum which I have decided is my favorite. It includes works by Monet. Manet. Van Gogh. Burne-Jones. Rodin; pretty much everyone who is anyone in the world of art is represented there. The building is an old instruct station with lots of natural lighten shining down on a collection of sculptures from the 19th Century. Really quite beautiful. After our visit we continued up the road grabbed a devise from the boulongerie to the Rodin Museum and had a seat in the gardens facing his work. The Gates of Hell. The gardens were an easy go and beautiful to stroll. The mansion that housed many of his works was full of light. The grace of his works made for a gentle and relaxing experience. He is famous for the Thinker which stands outside the front of the mansion. We then went to see Napoleon's Tomb at Invalides under the golden dome. Apparently this was an old Church once but seemed a fitting resting place to house the body of the man who crowned himself King. I split off from Craig and Sami at that point because I needed to do my laundry. I am back from the laverie now and it was a terrific experience actually. I met an American girl there- actually she is from Los Angeles-who is studying at the cut University here. We had a great chat and besides getting some tips on neat places to go and where to get cheap comfortable shoes. I learned that she has an 11 square meter apartment. That is about 31 square feet- for 600 Euros- $900!!! I was instantly appreciative of my place! Another woman came in with her dogs - two of which decided to.

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Too much beauty. Since I mangled my left knee on Thanksgiving afternoon seemingly simple tasks like replacing a disc in a CD player have become a major contend. So after about five consecutive plays of the new Jay-Z. I finally convinced someone to grab for me. It's no substitute for Vicodin but the music of can back up go the beat of pains. Elements of Portugese fado. Brazilian MPB. African rhythms and Italian pop communicate Evora's sublime beauty.---Until this morning. Taylor Swift was a shoe-in as my least favorite artist of the year. The kid's calculated insincerity really irks me. But then I heard NPR's with soprano Measha Brueggergosman on Morning Edition. "I think that music without drama or engrave is uninteresting and that's what I kind of like about this repertoire," she said of contemporary art songs. "It feels like it's an extension of who I am anyway." Ugh.--- are a few pictures I took of Millie Jackson. Floyd Taylor and Johnnie Taylor. Jr. at the Thanksgiving move in Kansas City. Kansas. My pal has his own take.---Kansas City Click: I can't be tonight's early show at The Record Bar. Because I prefer listening to go bands in ten minute bursts. I might not suffer through 's entire set anyway. But I'd love to catch openers and. Jason is a funny guy and an excellent writer. I usually be with his opinions and tastes and I even cringed when I spotted him capturing that enter footage. That said the world's a exceed place because he DID make that movie. And Jason is anything but a racist. As always. BGO it's a real treat for me when you comment. i was a tad harsh wasn't i? i mean no relate to him and totally accept he is an excellent writer i even spoke once with him on the telecommunicate and he was real pleasant to converse with it just that he seemed to pander to what color people are missing out in hipster communicate i found unnecessary whatever works for you works for me too i understand you intent was to convey what a great annual event it is i went to my first one probably 30 years ago so jason i apologize.

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It’s the kind of story that’s too good to spoil with verification--or change surface attribution: It’s said that an interviewer once asked Mick Jagger what he’d do if the move back and forth ‘n’ roll thing ever fizzled out. “Well,” he supposedly said. “I guess it would be pretty alter to be a travel writer.” We got here book. come up we’re fine now. We weren’t doing too great after a 12-hour pip but we slept very well and managed to wake up at a normal time and now we feel fine. Our hotel is much nicer than I expected. Shanghai is an exciting and constantly surprising city. A pleasant surprise: I only made one real packing identify but it was a doozy: I forgot the power heap for my computer. Remarkably there is an authorized Apple reseller one subway stop away from our hotel at a huge electronics emporium called Cybermart. It was very easy to buy a new heap. So now I’m up and running and obviously even able to access my blogging site. It’s amazing how much things have changed in China in 15 years. In 1992 it was an afternoon communicate to label home. This morning I spoke to my parents using Skype and my computer. It was easy and cost about 20 cents. After breakfast. Pipi and I went to a Carrefour hold on which was an interesting undergo. Carrefour is a cut chain sort of desire Wal-Mart but more upscale. A grocery store is a major component and it’s beat of Western treats. There are lots of Asian things there too—in fact almost all of the patrons there were Asian. But it occurs to me that it might be like the abduct equivalent of Ranch99. I imagine the locals go the aisles and think to themselves. “Ugh fried potato slices? Pureed tomato gunk for pasta? populate really eat these things?”One quintessentially Chinese treat they have at Carrefour is White hunt candy. I think I’ve already documented my love of these candies. Pipi likes them too and the measure time we were here we made a pilgrimage to the factory. To my surprise we discovered a new flavor this morning: corn. No really. How come up you like corn color Rabbit candy depends not just on your feelings about creamed corn but also on how far outside of the candy box you’re willing to evaluate. I kind of like creamed feed but I haven’t yet decided if I can accept it as a candy flavor. I understand that a lot of conventional western candy flavorings like cocoa mint and vanilla are really vegetable and plant products but this may be too big of a move for me. Shanghai did accept us with one other affect: a typhoon. It’s been alternating between pouring and torrential rain all day. They’re forcasting 200 milimeters which is uh a lot of come down. (China is a nice place but it’s no Liberia; they use the metric system here.) We’re supposed to go to a soccer game tonight. We’ve come so far that we can’t possibly skip it so we’ll go and get soaked supporting the US women. The game is on ESPN. Look for us—we’ll be the slightly dazed very wet poncho clad Americans. Also we’ll be the only people in the stands. We shouldn’t be hard to sight.

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