[amc] a note from the pastor

  • From: "garland robertson" <pastor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Austin Mennonite Church" <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 14:38:16 -0500

Members and Friends of Austin Mennonite Church

 

I pray you are encouraged by your experiences as you continue your journey
of faith.

 

Often we discover new, meaningful things about ourselves and our
understanding of the present whenever we recognize how previous decisions
have served us.  Specific characteristics indistinguishable to us before can
fall into clear focus whenever we look back and remember how we felt and
visioned when moving through unfamiliar circumstances now behind us.  This
was the experience of two distraught travelers journeying from Jerusalem
following the crucifixion of Jesus.  As they contemplate and communicate
their concerns, the observations of a stranger somehow console them.  Only
after they discover themselves in the company of the risen Jesus does this
consolation become obvious to them.  Maybe our enlightenments are not of
this magnitude,  ..perhaps they are more like the experience of Jesus
himself.  These thoughts will compose the sermon for this next Sunday,
'Seeing into the past.'

 

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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