Grace and Peace to you. The next Sunday is Pentecost and I am trying too find the red outfit I usually wear on Pentecost. Also checking to see how it fits this year. This is an essential step before Sunday morning.
If you were a disciple, in the general order of things, Jesus would have ascended and left you behind, (again), but this time he did so with orders about what your job was to do for the Kin-dom. Go out and spread the Good News of God’s love. Everywhere. Like everywhere even to the ends of the earth. Ok, now there’s a topper on the bucket list.
Spread the Good News. Sure, sure I hear you say. Can do…will do. But do I have to get out of my car? (that as meant to be a joke). However, perhaps not so much of a joke as one might think . Perhaps we would say yes to a cushier job. I’ll cook till you get home and have a hot meal for you after your day of telling everyone. I don’t really want to be a talker-to-people. Ok. Ok. I guess people know that there is Good News to be shared by the joy on our faces. Perhaps they do until we break character and utter ugly words about someone or call a woman ‘Nasty’.
Being peaceful in a sea of anxiousness and doubt it is not unusual to become upset about the possibility of getting it wrong. There are some people I know who seem to treasure others messing up. Does tha do their egos a boost. Compare yourself o someone who failed and you will look better. But to be honest that’s really a cheap way to BE in this world.
Live like Aunt Dorothy, who was a member of my church in Lawton. Her niece said of her, She never said anything mean about someone she knew, or someone she didn”t know.” No there is a way to live our lives in the fullness of God’s mercy and grace.
God knows you thru and thru …and Loves you Even still.
God abide
@Bobbie Giltz McGarey
June 2 2019
ABQ. NM
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