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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Why Church? A piece of the answer ~

An excerpt from a sermon based on The Everything Seed'by Carol Martignacco with beautiful illustrations by Joy Troyer.

"But when we come here, it’s different.  Here we get to dream something quite special.  We get to dream about how to become a better person.  This sanctuary is our place for appreciating that sacred seed deep within, acknowledging how each of us is special and then ---------Reaching for a better self. It is here we seek and find the path that lets our seed emerge and reach for the sun and grow to become everything it is yet to be.  Everything yet to be known.  Everything meant to be.  Each of us able to ponder ‘best use’ of our souls In this world.  
On a pathway to discover what was imprinted on our seed.
Just as a real seed needs good soil, water, sunlight and nutrients, we need things too.  We need to hone our ability to be still and listen for the voice within.  We need to listen to the voices of truth in our world knowing that some of those truths are difficult.  We need to appreciate our beginnings or perhaps overcome them.  We need love.  We need music and art and dance.  We need study and we need play.  We need to drink in the air and bathe in the ocean.  But most of all we need each other to remind us always that because of our shared beginnings, we belong. We belong to this world and to each other. 
And that ahead of us each day, possibilities ………

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