Movement
A spiritual gift is given to each of us
so we can help each other.
1 Corinthians 12:7 (NLT)
Dear friend,
Within this issue of PJ’s Place (above and by the prayer) are a couple of fun
videos designed to help you and those younger than you, to stay on the move.
It’s important.
Movement is important.
It’s easy, so easy to let ourselves get out of balance, and say we’ll get
back to moving that certain part of ourselves some other day. Yet your
mind, body and spirit need you to move them today and every day.
In honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan 17) someone put together the video
above, helping children to move their minds, bodies and spirits, and to dream big dreams,
as they learn to offer the best of themselves to all the larger movements of which they are
a part. Whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Indigenous, Humanist or
whatever else, recognizing our significance to the larger whole of life is so important,
and educating children in this way, from the youngest possible age, is so very important.
So, on Sunday during worship and then on Wednesday during my podcast, while not focusing
on MLK Jr. as directly as I sometimes have done, there will be this theme within which MLK Jr. Day
is included. As the apostle Paul says in the 7th verse of the 12th chapter of his First Letter to the
Corinthians “A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.” (NLT) Stated slightly
differently in the NRSV translation; “To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.”
You and I have been gifted our minds, bodies and spirits. They are ours to experience
life. With them we dream, we think, we wonder and we do. Celebrate and express
gratitude to God for these gifts by using and moving them, so they continue to be
as strong as they can be, for as long as they can be, on this side of life.
Then, recognize the movements you’re a part of, the movements you move within,
the movements requiring movement, from you. God has given you gifts, both to
enjoy and to share, so we can help each other, for the common good.
Looking forward to sharing more with you in the days
ahead, using the gifts I’ve been given to share.
Blessings and Love,
Pastor John
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so we can help each other.
1 Corinthians 12:7 (NLT)
Dear friend,
Within this issue of PJ’s Place (above and by the prayer) are a couple of fun
videos designed to help you and those younger than you, to stay on the move.
It’s important.
Movement is important.
It’s easy, so easy to let ourselves get out of balance, and say we’ll get
back to moving that certain part of ourselves some other day. Yet your
mind, body and spirit need you to move them today and every day.
In honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan 17) someone put together the video
above, helping children to move their minds, bodies and spirits, and to dream big dreams,
as they learn to offer the best of themselves to all the larger movements of which they are
a part. Whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Indigenous, Humanist or
whatever else, recognizing our significance to the larger whole of life is so important,
and educating children in this way, from the youngest possible age, is so very important.
So, on Sunday during worship and then on Wednesday during my podcast, while not focusing
on MLK Jr. as directly as I sometimes have done, there will be this theme within which MLK Jr. Day
is included. As the apostle Paul says in the 7th verse of the 12th chapter of his First Letter to the
Corinthians “A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.” (NLT) Stated slightly
differently in the NRSV translation; “To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.”
You and I have been gifted our minds, bodies and spirits. They are ours to experience
life. With them we dream, we think, we wonder and we do. Celebrate and express
gratitude to God for these gifts by using and moving them, so they continue to be
as strong as they can be, for as long as they can be, on this side of life.
Then, recognize the movements you’re a part of, the movements you move within,
the movements requiring movement, from you. God has given you gifts, both to
enjoy and to share, so we can help each other, for the common good.
Looking forward to sharing more with you in the days
ahead, using the gifts I’ve been given to share.
Blessings and Love,
Pastor John
_____________________________________________________________________________
Would you pray with me?
God,
as we gather our bodies,
as we gather our minds,
as we gather our hearts,
in the stillness of this prayer,
we sense the movement of your love,
the movement of Jesus’ Way,
the movement of Holy Spirit breathing into us,
the movement of you moving us,
moving us from within.
Each of us gathered,
in the stillness of prayer,
seeks to be moved.
Forgive us our complacency.
Forgive us all the times we’ve neglected to move
our bodies, our minds, our spirits,
keeping the gift of ourselves strong, flexible and agile.
Each of us gathered,
in the needed stillness of prayer,
seeks to be moved,
so we may move others,
movement creating movement.
The movement of your church, God,
is movement requiring movement.
We pray to be on the move with you, God.
Wherever we are,
whatever our ability or mobility,
whether on two legs, living in wheelchairs, or confined to a bed,
help us, God, to know you are calling us,
our minds and hearts, to be on the move.
Thank you, God,
for the movement of you
moving through the talents you’ve given each of us,
for the healing of ourselves,
and the movement of your love in our little corner of the world.
Help us move where you want us to go,
where the needs of the world meet
the talents you’ve given us to share.
Amen.
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Become the Love you Seek!
JOURNEY on The Way
SEE the Face of Jesus in All People
BECOME a Light of Peace, Justice
& Revolutionary Love
Blessings always,
Pastor John
God,
as we gather our bodies,
as we gather our minds,
as we gather our hearts,
in the stillness of this prayer,
we sense the movement of your love,
the movement of Jesus’ Way,
the movement of Holy Spirit breathing into us,
the movement of you moving us,
moving us from within.
Each of us gathered,
in the stillness of prayer,
seeks to be moved.
Forgive us our complacency.
Forgive us all the times we’ve neglected to move
our bodies, our minds, our spirits,
keeping the gift of ourselves strong, flexible and agile.
Each of us gathered,
in the needed stillness of prayer,
seeks to be moved,
so we may move others,
movement creating movement.
The movement of your church, God,
is movement requiring movement.
We pray to be on the move with you, God.
Wherever we are,
whatever our ability or mobility,
whether on two legs, living in wheelchairs, or confined to a bed,
help us, God, to know you are calling us,
our minds and hearts, to be on the move.
Thank you, God,
for the movement of you
moving through the talents you’ve given each of us,
for the healing of ourselves,
and the movement of your love in our little corner of the world.
Help us move where you want us to go,
where the needs of the world meet
the talents you’ve given us to share.
Amen.
________________________________________________
Become the Love you Seek!
JOURNEY on The Way
SEE the Face of Jesus in All People
BECOME a Light of Peace, Justice
& Revolutionary Love
Blessings always,
Pastor John
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