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The day before the day after

30 March 2006

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WASSUP - Looks good in theory

The word theory comes from a Greek word theros, or spectator from which we get our English word theatre. Interesting isn't it? Most things look good in theory. The spectators speculate as theros dances on the stage. But it is at that point that we lose the point all together.

For the Greeks there was no separation between the actors and the spectators. Theatre was not a spectator sport; it was the drama of life. The spectator, theros was in the play.

So why not get out of your seat and become part of life's drama? Theory will never again be the same.

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INSIGHT OUT - Cold comfort

It was cold, and the servants and officials stood around a fire they had made to keep warm. Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.

Jn 18:18

The greatest denial is the denial of the love of a friend

Peter stood around a fire seeking to warm himself

The chill in the air struck deep to the bone

Denial once

Denial twice

Denial thrice

Pity the fire offered such cold comfort.

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OUTSIGHT IN - The day before the day after

Seems that we are always wiser the day after;

the sunlight of a new day reveals yesterday in a whole new light.

What you would or wouldn't do, "if only?"

It's always after the fact, as if a monster we did know existed, had just been released from a cage.

But what could you see the day before, the day after?

It was already there but you chose not to see it.

Questions from the day before, the day before had already been discarded and forgotten.

Hindsight failed to look with foresight.

So as you wake up to this new day,

just remember that you already stand at the day before, the day after.

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SEE YA SUNDAY - A life forever changed: A Changed Heart

While change is happening all around you it seems that the things you so desperately want to change are impossible: to loose weight, to change an attitude or habit or to change the grief or sorrow of our hearts condition. Can I really change and be changed? Is there any hope for the kind of change that I really want to see happen in my life?

These are the kind of questions that we'll be exploring over the next four weeks.

This Sunday morning - A life forever changed: A changed heart 8.30am & 10.30am

Bread & Wine - 9.45am - Weekly Communion

Thanks for this time to chat.

Andrew
St Columba
Where Life and Faith Meet
andrew.norton@stcolumba.org.nz

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LAST WORD - Thinking

Most men would rather die, than think. Many do."

Bertrand Russell


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