Be Thou My Vision
In this, the second to last Sunday/week we will be together, I offer a personal reflection through the lens of some of our basic theologies on God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, and how we fit into it all, and how my thinking on these matters has changed throughout my life. If you are anything like myself, the way you live and work with your faith will have changed throughout your life, as your experiences have informed it, and as your mind has examined it. This is a life time process.
I hope you find this personal reflection helpful to your own faith journey. It will be different than mine, but no less valuable, for our faith stories guide how we are in this world. And in the current world situation in which we find ourselves, we need to be strong and flexible enough to re-examine all that we hold to be true, without fear. I know you have the courage to do this.
Every blessing for the journey.
“We employ and honour the traditional image of the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), but also offers other images, such as Mother, Friend, Comforter, Source of Life, Living Word, Bond of Love. Words are a significant means of understanding and relating to the Holy, and the statement of faith recognizes the adequacy of all images or metaphors that speak faithfully of “the One on whom our hearts rely.” ”
“This is no time for a child to be born,
With the earth betrayed by war & hate
And a comet slashing the sky to warn
That time runs out & the sun burns late.
That was no time for a child to be born,
In a land in the crushing grip of Rome;
Honor & truth were trampled to scorn—
Yet here did the Savior make His home.
When is the time for love to be born?
The inn is full on the planet earth,
And by a comet the sky is torn—
Yet Love still takes the risk of birth.”
“The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.”
“When we find the truth that shapes our lives, we have found more than an idea. We have found a Person. We have come upon the actions of One Who is still hidden, but Whose work proclaims Him holy and worthy to be adored. And in Him we also find ourselves.”
“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.”
Jessy Dixon, Dorothy Norwood, Edgar O'Neal - Official Video for "The Wicked Shall Cease Their Troubling (Live)"
The Weary Shall Cease Their Troubling
The wicked shall cease their troubling
The weary shall be at rest
All the Saints of the ages.
We gonna sit at His feet and be blessed
I am just a Stranger down here.
This old world is not my home
You gonna get up looking for Jessy one morning ...
But... I thank God I'll be gone on my home
The wicked shall cease their troubling
The weary shall be at rest
All the Saints of the ages.
We gonna sit at His feet and be blessed
If you shall ever come to my home
And when you got there they told you Jessy is gone...
Come on over the river...
You will find me somewhere along the throne
The wicked shall cease their troubling
The weary shall be at rest
All the Saints of the ages.
We gonna sit at His feet and be blessed
The wicked shall cease
All the Saints of the ages.
We gonna sit at His feet and be blessed
I don't mind been talked about
I don't mind being 'buked and scorned
Cause every time somebody tells about me
There's another brick in my brand new home
The wicked shall cease their troubling
The weary shall be at rest
All the Saint of the ages.
We gonna sit at His feet and be blessed