Sunday, January 29, 2006 

Coming and going

Pastor Angela, pictured here with her lovely niece, gave a heartfelt talk this Sunday on Love and Forgiveness. "If God can forgive us, then we really must forgive ourselves." She talked about our "thought-life," and how it is really for many of us the enemy within. The terrible memories we keep within can be quite harmful. One of the great secrets of happiness is to transform those memories into something beneficial. We must sometimes force ourselves to find something good that came about because of our haunting experiences, no matter how terrible they seem on the surface. That something, usually just out of sight, is by its nature redemptive.

Then, she brought the house down, and dried a few tears with her misreading of Jesus' words, "Go now, and return to your life of sin." "Wait a minute," she said, "isn't there supposed to be a not in there somewhere?" The word was leave, and so we did, each and every one of us with a big smile.

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