Thursday, November 4, 2021
Despair, Faith, Glory
All Saints Day This Sunday
We will be celebrating All Saints Day this Sunday - November 7, 2021
This year I am inviting you to bring a picture or pictures of loved ones who have passed
and place them on a table provided near the altar.
In addition, you are welcome to light a candle or two in honor of your loved ones.
If you watch online and would like to have photos placed on the table
- please email them to communications@gvumc.org
My prayer is for us during this worship time to remember our loved ones and thank God for them and the legacy they have passed onto to us.
Pastor Mary
Words for Ponder...
What is a saint?
What is a saint?
A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility.
It is impossible to say what that possibility is.
I think it has something to do with the energy of love.
Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence.
A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago.
I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself,
for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order.
It is a kind of balance that is his glory.
He rides the drifts like an escaped ski.
His course is a caress of the hill.
His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance.
Far from flying with the angels,
he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.
His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world.
He can love the shapes of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart.
It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
-Leonard Cohen Beautiful Losers (1966)
This Week's Scripture Verse
John 11:32-44
When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him,
"Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping,
he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved.
He said, "Where have you laid him?"
They said to him, "Lord, come and see."
Jesus began to weep So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" But some of them said,
"Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"
Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb.
It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him,
"Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days."
Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?"
So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said,
"Father, I thank you for having heard me. I knew that you always hear me,
but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here,
so that they may believe that you sent me." Jesus said to them, "Unbind him and let him go."
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