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sted by martha honaker at 9 59 am no comments friday may 28 2010 trinity sunday katie and i took a long walk this afternoon this pond is behind the new harmony inn and these two swans are permanent residents they swim in this pond and then through a series of canals running east to another pond you can t really tell from this picture but they are big birds i think the male swan probably weighs 30 pounds and maybe more katie is curious but she is not going to get too close i m sure papa swan could do some damage with his beak sunday we celebrate the trinity my favorite image of the trinity is rublev s icon of the trinity pictured below i love the notion that these three persons seem to be seated at a table and there is room at the table for me it is one of the most prevalent images that comes to my mind when i am meditating and praying just to feel myself seated in the rich presence of holiness quietens my spirit i am going to preach on the lesson from proverbs chapter 8 the author writes does not wisdom call and does not understanding raise her voice i believe that the holy spirit is lady wisdom or as eugene peterson calls her in the message madam insight this wise woman image of the spirit makes recognizing her work in us so important we bring our greatest concerns and deepest needs before the spirit because without ever uttering a word those intimate needs and concerns are already known by the spirit who dwells in us not a hurt or a care goes unnoticed by this insightful spirit i read once that the holy spirit can be called our baggage handler each heavy burden is borne by god s own presence in us even those burdens which we cannot yet articulate rublev s icon of the trinity this is the welcoming table of god s presence i hope that each of you get to spend some time there this weekend posted by martha honaker at 2 37 pm no comments sunday may 23 2010 pentecost 2010 st stephen s parish pentecost 2010 we had a wonderful worship service today as we celebrated pentecost pentecost is a jewish festival which the christian church incorporated into its story pentecost shavuot celebrates the giving of the 10 commandments to moses on mt sinai it is celebrated 50 days after passover on pentecost the jewish people came together and renewed their commitment to god and to each other when the followers of jesus came together to celebrate pentecost after the death and resurrection of jesus they must have been wondering how they would be able to move forward from the miraculous events of the past 50 days how could they continue now that jesus had ascended leaving them on this pentecost celebration the holy spirit came down with rushing wind and tongues of fire the spirit filled the worshippers with god s presence and an assurance of god s love the sustaining power of god s presence sent these disciples out into the world to proclaim god s love we still have god s presence to sustain us and to confirm god s love in our hearts i wrote a blessing for today s service come rushing wind and flashing fire spirit of god turn us to your love in our sorrow breathe hope in our hurts breathe peace spread the joy of your love in us to all the nations of the world go forth in the blessing of god who is the creator of all our redeemer and our sustaining power amen peony season in new harmony the peonies in new harmony this year have been beautiful this old fashioned flower has a lovely scent which is not overwhelming there is a peony farm in new harmony and they ship the peony buds all over the world once the buds bloom they are no longer able to ship them and they open the farms for picking it is amazing to see the variety of peonies most of the peonies in town are white pink and deep purple i have a parishioner who has a deep red peony which is beautiful next spring come to new harmony to see the peonies parish house the parish house is coming along some of the siding is up in the front it will be painted white with blue trim there are so many decisions to be made right now but everyone is getting excited the contractor says we might be in by the end of july posted by martha honaker at 3 32 pm 1 comment friday may 7 2010 friday this week the workers installed this window in the new parish house this window faces south and there is one just like it on the north side of the building yesterday we worked with the electricians who are wiring the new part and rewiring the old building when they took the siding off of the back of the old structure they found electrical wiring held together with black electrical tape when they added on to the original c 1890 s house the wiring was added in a haphazard way god was good to us over those intervening years as we added computers copy machines and all manner of kitchen appliances to that frail system rewiring this older structure will give us a huge margin of safety we also worked with the cabinet makers this week to determine storage it is exciting to see the way it moves forward each day tomorrow i am preaching at our sw deanery confirmation service in washington in i was doing some research for the sermon and came across this quote from martin luther king jr there was a time when the church was very powerful it was during that period when the early christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed in in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society wherever the early christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being disturbers of the peace and outside agitators but they went on with the conviction that they were a colony of heaven and had to obey god rather than man they were small in number but big in commitment they were too god intoxicated to be astronomically intimidated they brought to an end such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest things are different now the contemporary church is often a weak ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound it is so often the arch supporter of the status quo far from being disturbed by the presence of the church the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church s silent and often vocal sanction of things as they are dr martin luther king jr letter from birmingham jail in a testament of hope the essential writings of martin luther king jr edited by james melvin washington san francisco harper and row 1986 pg 300 this quote reminded me of some of the things that philip newell is teaching at the benedictine retreat this week newell teaches that the doctrine of creation was watered down my word newell used the word neutralized when christianity was legalized by the empire irenaeus bishop of lyons c 202 wrote that creation is not ex nihilo out of nothing rather god created all that is out of god s self irenaeus was a disciple of polycarp who was a disciple of john the beloved disciple of jesus if all that is created is out of god then we bear the dna of god in a particular way in our own dna this has serious implications for our interactions with each other implications that go way beyond the current cultures of making war terrorism and fundamentalism of course the roman empire would not want people to believe that each person created bears god how then could we separate ourselves into the exclusive groups or good and evil believers and non believers infidels what if we all honored this dna of god in ourselves and others this is very radical stuff but it resonates within me as the truth that will allow us to stop destroying each other and ourselves perhaps the greatest problem our world faces is religious fundamentalism fundamentalists found among christians muslims or jews and many other sects see the world and people in very exclusive ways certain people must be excluded so that we can know who we are julian of norwich the 14th century mystic and writer says that we are made of god being made of god has huge implications for my life and i am just beginning to reach into those implications as i write this colors of spring this is the view from my backyard this has been one of the most beautiful seasons of spring that i have known in recent memory the greens are particularly wonderful this is a fallow so far field where wild mustard has grown up they may plow it up to plant soybeans later but for now it is radiant the wabash river the tiny slice of blue in the green is now full to the edges from the rain we had last weekend katie and i ride the golf cart down to see it in the evenings posted by martha honaker at 9 05 am no comments monday may 3 2010 blackberry winter blackberry blooms actually blackberry winter was last week this week is going to be like summer this is a picture of the blackberry bushes in my backyard my wonderful next door neighbor trimmed all of the dead vines out of them and they are so pleasing to look at now last year i both my neighbor and i got loads of blackberries off of the bushes and this year it looks like they will be loaded again so look for that blackberry jelly again on saturday we rededicated the roofless church here in new harmony on its 50th anniversary it was a wonderful service there must have been 150 people there the rev dr philip newell spoke philip and his wife allie are here in new harmony on sabbatical philip was the warden like the dean of iona abbey in scotland and he has written extensively on celtic worship one of the things he said in his talk was that god cannot be contained in buildings and neither can god be contained by the walls we put up in our hearts he spoke quite forcibly i thought about how imperative it is that we stop separating ourselves from brothers and sisters in different faith traditions until we are able to recognize our one ness in god peace will never come i was reminded of his words as i sat down to write my sermon later in the day the lessons for the 5th sunday of easter were so clearly about this sort of demolition of walls christianity from the beginning struggled with how to be inclusive peter s vision in acts 11 allowed the first perhaps wall to be dismantled the jewish christians didn t want to include the gentile christians because it meant letting go of their deeply held traditions but god shows peter in a vision that what god has made is clean so the gospel goes forth to the gentiles the commandment to love one another just as jesus has loved us john 13 is of course the hardest i want to exclude those who are different from me for any reason because it requires really hard work inside my self to overcome my fears and prejudices father zossima in the brothers karamazov says love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams peter was able to enter into this hard work because he did not want to hinder god s work what about me will i be able to put aside my prejudices and do the hard work of love making progress we are now under roof and moving along we are all beginning to get a sense of what the new parish house will look like and how radically different it will be from the old one there is so much space in the new building and we are getting excited more pictures perhaps even tomorrow if they put the round windows in at the top of the hall posted by martha honaker at 3 03 pm 3 comments saturday april 24 2010 sheep sunday a pastoral scene this past week was heritage artisans week in new harmony it always surprises me how a 19th century village suddenly appears on the lawn of the athenaeum on north street artisans from all over come to show what life was like in the new harmony of the 1800s rope makers soap makers tin workers and yes shepherds come to teach school kids from all over the area about a variety of lost arts around 2000 school children and adults come to visit so one day last week katie and i went down to see the sheep the shepherd had an under shepherd named rerun rerun is a border collie and she is absolutely amazing to watch while i was there she never took her eyes off of the sheep the shepherd let them out of the pen to wander and graze and they didn t hesitate to wander in whatever direction the grass tasted sweetest rerun watched and when the shepherd gave her the command to gather them she did it quickly and efficiently when jesus says my sheep hear my voice i know them and they follow me he is talking about all of us sheep and most especially those of us who tend to wander the fact that no one can snatch us out of his hand means that jesus never takes his eyes off of us i don t know how god does that with so many children to watch but i believe it just as surely as i know that rerun had her eyes on all 4 of those sheep not only did she watch them but she listened for the shepherd s voice i barely heard his muttered command to her when she rounded up the sheep but she did not miss it annie lamott in her book traveling mercies tells a story she heard from one of the ministers at her church when this woman was about 7 her best friend got lost one day the little girl ran up and down the streets of the big neighborhood where they lived but she couldn t find a single landmark she was very frightened finally a policeman stopped to help her he put her in the passenger seat of his car and drove around until she finally saw her church she told him firmly you could let me out now this is my church and i can always find my way home from here lamott says that is why she has always stayed close to her church because no matter how bad she is feeling how lost or lonely or frightened when she sees the faces of those people at her church and hears their tawny voices she knows that she can always find her way home it is amazing to me how much those who spend time with the good shepherd begin to reflect the ways of the shepherd and even sound like him the walls have gone up with a shout this is a picture from almost two weeks ago now of the construction of our new parish house not to make too many excuses but this is the reason why i haven t posted in several weeks this week before the rain they got the building under roof and i am very excited about the ministry possibilities it will give us we are still quite a way off from the finish but it is beginning to feel like a reality more pictures to come posted by martha honaker at 5 42 pm 2 comments friday april 2 2010 meeting jesus from the jerusalem woman it is so hard to believe that i just met jesus the teacher last night all afternoon yesterday i tried to think of something that i could take to the passover meal as i started out the door the ruined white fabric was there where i had left it the day before i grabbed it thinking it would be a perfect table covering for the meal i met mary of bethany at the market and helped her finish the shopping for the meal when she saw the cloth she was delighted we finished our preparations just in time jesus and his 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