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WHAT HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT?
Over these last four weeks we have focused in worship and in our home groups on the Bible and “being green.” In what sense and to what degree we are to be engaged in caring for the environment?.
What has this caused you to consider? Have you made any changes in your life? Are there any changes that you would like to help happen in our community? Are there any changes you would like to see in the congregation?
Both the sermons and the home group materials are on the web site.
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SOME QUOTES I FOUND
When I was doing some reading about Christians and the environment I read Agrarian Essays by Wendell Berry.
I couldn’t find a place in the recent sermons or home groups to use these quotes, so I wanted to share a couple with you. Might get you thinking.
Here’s one:
It ought to be easy (though many do not find it so) to refuse to buy what one does not need. If you are already solving you problem with the equipment you have—a pencil, say—why solve it with something more expensive and more damaging? If you don’t have a problem, why pay for a solution? If you love the freedom and elegance of simple tools, why encumber yourself with something complicated?
Here’s another:
Most of the vegetables necessary of a family of four can be grown on a plot of forty by sixty feet. I think we might see in this an economic potential of considerable importance, since we now appear to be facing the possibility of widespread famine. How much food could be grown in the dooryards of cities and suburbs?
Here’s still one more:
We lose our health—and create profitable diseases and dependences—by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving. If gardening, for instance, one works with the body to feed the body. The work, it is knowledgeable, makes for excellent food. And it makes one hungry. The work thus makes eating both nourishing and joyful, not consumptive, and keeps the eater from getting fat and weak. This is health, wholeness, a source of delight. And such a solution, unlike the typical industrial solution, doesn’t cause new problems.
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GETTING THINGS DONE
I have just completed the last module of a two year training session on leadership. This last one focused on organization.
If you would like to get your house, your life and your work more organized check out a book entitled ‘Getting Things Done’.
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GETTING CAUGHT UP
I have gotten a little bit behind in my Bible reading. Working to get caught up.
Share with me how becoming a daily reader of the Bible has changed your life.
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Hope you’re not too soggy.