[amc] a note from the pastor
- From: "garland robertson" <pastor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Austin Mennonite Church" <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:07:48 -0600
Members and Friends of Austin Mennonite Church
I pray the new year will be rich in blessing and adventure as you continue
your journey of faith.
We reflect on things old and new more frequently whenever time ushers us
into another calendar year. The routine, persistent passing of time
accompanies us at every moment, yet we have a more definite sense of it as
the cycle of months we use to reference human experience begins again at the
first day. Such a scenario suggests to us that within the human spirit
there might be a parallel activity occurring, or at least the potential for
moving from something old to something new-reorienting ourselves to ways of
thinking and behaving that replace those out-grown and destructive patterns
of living which knowledge, experience, revelation, and imagination
eventually identify as deficient, selfish, divisive, and otherwise 'unholy.'
Today we reflect on the witness of a 'holy' spirit which accompanied Jesus
into our world, finally becoming comprehensible after hovering unrecognized
over the surface of human existence. We can see this 'holy spirit' embodied
in a man among us. Now we too can live in God's favor.
These thoughts will compose the sermon for this next Sunday, 'Discarding the
unholy spirit.'
May it go well with you. Sincerely,
Garland Robertson
...always hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do something to
bring some portion of misery to an end
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