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There is an important and significant difference between feelings and gifts of the Spirit, or at least that is what I learned from Abuela.
“The hope for Isaiah’s people is not a single plant growing, but a new branch for that moment sprouting from the stump of a history of faithfulness, devotion, commitment, and peace. A stump.”
a sermon preached to the Presbyterian United Church of Christ, Saratoga Springs, NY
In such trying times as we are found, in the midst of so much noise that amounts to little information, love is what the John, the gospel writer, says Jesus used to cut through the noise of his moment, the noise of the moment of the congregation John led, and the noise of the church in the United States for such a time as this.
“We face a threat qualitatively different from all other previous threats and we do not have a fitting model for a response… As humanity we have entered a period in which our faith is being stripped of all support systems and defense mechanism. But it is precisely with this naked faith that we are called to build a community of hope that is able to resist the darkness of our age.”
