READINGS                        

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REFLECTION

Learn to Be a Generous Receiver

"Knowing the risk of giving, now try the even greater risk of receiving. Learn to be a generous receiver. Somebody wants to love you; think of that. Let down the barriers, open the doors, remove the inhibitions, let him in. Somebody less worthy of you wants you to accept him or her. Try it. Open your hand to receive what someone else is prepared to give to you. The old spiritual fathers used to say that we get so little from God because we are prepared to accept so little from God. Open your hands that you may be prepared to receive what is there for you. Open your hands, and open your hearts to the abundance that is waiting to fill them both."  

From Strength for the Journey: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living     Peter Gomes

Monday, JULY 23 

Amazing Grace Circus Camp continues  

Weekdays through August 10 For information: 348-8740     

Wednesday, JULY 25 

7:00am Holy Eucharist & Healing Prayers (Bradley Chapel)  

Sunday, JULY 29 

Holy Eucharist at 8:00 and 10:00am (baptisms)

PLEASE NOTE OUR SUMMER SERVICE SCHEDULE: 

Holy Eucharist at 8:00am (Rite I) and 10:00am (Rite II, music)

Holy Eucharist & Healing Prayers will continue Wednesdays at 7:00am in Bradley Chapel.

PEOPLE TO PEOPLE 

Summer is a no vacation for People to People. Church attendance and work schedules are altered and the amount of food collected is reduced. But our neighbors who depend on food donations from People to People still need support. You may not be in church every Sunday this summer but try to remember to bring non-perishable food for the Social Ministry basket in the narthex when you are there (bring a bit extra to make up for those missed Sundays).

SUMMER REFRESHMENTS

"Coffee Hour" takes place following the 10:00am service, and -- weather permitting -- we'll soon be serving punch outdoors. Your refreshment offerings -- cookies, brownies, tasty treats -- are always welcome -- and will be appreciated by all.  Bring when the spirit so moves!

KEEP IN TOUCH

PARTING THOUGHT 

As If to Demonstrate an Eclipse

I pick an orange from a wicker basket
and place it on the table
to represent the sun.
Then down at the other end
a blue and white marble
becomes the earth
and nearby I lay the little moon of an aspirin.

I get a glass from a cabinet,
open a bottle of wine,
then I sit in a ladder-back chair,
a benevolent god presiding
over a miniature creation myth,

and I begin to sing
a homemade canticle of thanks
for this perfect little arrangement,
for not making the earth too hot or cold
not making it spin too fast or slow

so that the grove of orange trees
and the owl become possible,
not to mention the rolling wave,
the play of clouds, geese in flight,
and the Z of lightning on a dark lake.

Then I fill my glass again
and give thanks for the trout,
the oak, and the yellow feather,

singing the room full of shadows,
as sun and earth and moon
circle one another in their impeccable orbits
and I get more and more cockeyed with gratitude.

While on the topic of astronomical phenomena, those solar storms last weekend produced some dramatic photos and information about our celestial glories.  CLICK HERE for more heavenly beauty and to link to an archive of incredible photos from NASA.