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Eyes
front
Bless
you, bless you, bless you! Your
essay of July 25 was superb and, I am sure, reflects
the feelings of the person-in-the-pew throughout
the Communion. It certainly resonated strongly
with me. (We may even have been in the same drawing
class!)
Amid
all the sturm and drang between Global North and
south, the flurry of communiques, press releases,
threats, petulance, and downright unChristian attitudes
displayed by hierarchy on both sides of this latest
issue that threatens to tear the fabric of the Communion,
life in the average parish goes on.
At
St. John's we continue our Sunday worship (even though
the choir is taking a well-deserved summer break),
we are gearing up for all the parish activities that
will begin again in September (I don't know about
your part of the world, but with the short summer
we enjoy in Canada, God goes to the lake, and many
of His people go with Him, so that the little churches
in cottage country are bursting at the seams from
May to September, while one could throw a bowling
ball through urban churches without the risk of hurting
anyone!).
Meanwhile,
we've arranged for the Bishop to confirm several
young-and-not-so-young people on Advent 1, our preparations
for our wonderful Red River Celebration (Advent 3),
bible study, book study, and a 12-week course called
'Living the Questions' are underway. Parish life
continues to flourish.
Your
essay brought to mind the closing lines of 'Vanitie'
(by the great George Herbert):
Poor
man, thou searchest round
to
find out death, but missest life at hand.
With
love in Christ, and with eyes on the goal,
Rene
Jamieson
The Cathedral of St. John
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA
25 July 2005
'Don't
look down'
What
a lovely essay on the practice of drawing without
watching one's own hands -- and it came home to me
with particular delight because I've just been on
holiday (Italy, a first visit), and had decided to
carry no camera at all but to try to sketch things
instead, from time to time. I remember the moment
of thinking, "Don't look down, don't look down" and
the results were much as you describe, very gratifying.
I'm
going to cite your illustration next Sunday in the
sermon, and tie it to the command, "Bring them here
to ME" -- and I'll try to make a parallel with all
our fussing about and watching the bread and the
fish and who's got the baskets... and how we forget
to look at what, and whom, it's all about.
Thank
you for this -- and may your week be full of
blessings!
Eileen
Conway
Holy Trinity Anglican
Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
26 July 2005
Drawing
lines in all the right places
Amen,
Amen, Amen! Could
I clone you and scatter you about the world to
remind people of what we are supposed to be focused
on? (And it is NOT the person someone chooses
to sleep with!)
Helen-Louise
Boling
St. Andrew's Episcopal
Toledo, Ohio, USA
hlboling@toast.net
25 July 2005
As
Dorothy Sayers once wrote:
As
I grow older and older,
And totter toward the tomb,
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom.
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