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Monday
| Prayer Group
12:10 p.m., Chapel
Everyone welcome. Prayers in both English and Spanish. Prayer Group will be moving to Tuesdays, beginning Tuesday March 19th.
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Tuesday
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Celtic Eucharist
6:15 p.m., Chapel
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Wednesday
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Mid-day Eucharist
12:10 p.m., Nave
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Thursday
| Choir Rehearsal
7:15 p.m., Choir Room
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Friday
| Practice Pirating
Auditions begin for The Pirates of Penzance tomorrow, Saturday March 17th. Please e-mail julia.melzer@gmail.com or call 608 219-4120 to set up an audition time.
Singers of any age interested in performing are welcomed.
www.madisonsavoyards.org
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Saturday
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Grace Food Pantry Open
10 a.m. - Noon
A.A. Meets
6 - 7 p.m., A.A. Room
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Sunday
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8 a.m.
Holy Eucharist, Rite I
9:40 a.m.
Family Gathering Time - a time for music and song before children go to Godly Play (Meets in the lower level under the church.)
10 a.m.
Godly Play
(Ages 4-10)
10 a.m.
Holy Eucharist, Rite II
Lenten Outreach Series: The Haiti Project
11:15 a.m.
Learn more about the Haiti Project during Coffee Hour. Singing Rooster coffee will be available for purchase.11:45 a.m.
Healing Prayer Group
meets in the A.A. Room. Any one with an interest in learning what this group is all about is welcome to stop in.
Noon
Worship (In Spanish)
5 p.m.
St. Francis House
Campus Ministry @ Grace
Holy Eucharist, Rite II
Followed by a meal in the Guild Hall.
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This week I had an interesting flashback about perspective. I'll never forget one morning almost ten years ago when I looked out my kitchen window and down the hill to the church across the street's Fellowship Hall to discover a great big fluorescent pink sign had appeared on the entry door some time when I wasn't looking.
It was one of those poster board type things children and college students often use for reports or science projects. In large black Sharpie letters someone had printed, "Mastitis meeting today Noon."
Oh, good, I thought! At that point in my life I was a new mother and new to the whole world of nursing. Mastitis, I had learned by a near brush with it, is a common issue where-in some times the ducts that produce milk can become blocked leading to the mastitis end of inflammation, flu-like symptoms, and possible poor quality or cessation of milk production. I was immediately interested in attending this meeting.
But of course, as all things go with babies, we were late going down for our morning nap, so when the town's noon whistle went off in my sleep I bolted up, quickly swaddled Jacob in one of those front-pack holders, dragged a comb across my head, and ran full-speed down the hill to the hall.
With quiet assertiveness I threw open the doors expecting to be greeted by a warm room of other young mothers, the wonderful sights and smells of babies clutching Cheerios, toddlers clinging to the knees of seated mothers.
Instead, I can't tell you whose eyes looked more wide like those of a terrified heifer - me or the roughly 60 all-male dairy farmers sprawled out on the folding chairs with their rubber milking boots and sweaty, hat hair.
Oops.
Yep, cows get mastitis too. How quickly I had processed that bright pink sign as for me, when given what I knew about Darlington, I should have known how to perspectivize the situation better.
Thankfully I'm not alone. In the book, Galileo's Daughter, Galileo, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, was facing similar perspective issues in his search to explain the world around him through mathematical principles.
"Aristotle had ruled out any such mathematical approach to physics, on the grounds that mathematicians pondered immaterial concepts, while Nature consisted entirely of matter. And Nature, furthermore, could not be expected to follow precise numerical rules." So they thought.
"Galileo argued against this stance: 'Just as the accountant who wants his calculations to deal with sugar, silk, and wool must discount the boxes, bales, and other packings, so the mathematical scientist, when he wants to recognize in the concrete the effects he has proved in the abstract, must deduct any material hindrances [such as friction or air resistance]...The trouble lies, then, not in abstractness or concreteness, but with the accountant who does not know how to balance his books.'"
He's right. It's all in how you approach the situation. Overcoming the challenges and obstacles facing us today as people trying to live out the Word of God has not as much to do with how we see ourselves, but how well we can figure out how to see like God and like others within the context of the progression of self. It all comes down to how well we can use our own life-worn-knowledge and vantage points, as the small self-focused rings of pebble-splashed water they are, as momentum for the larger, wider holistic rings that spread outward and create real change.
With God as our pebble, we all start with that same small splash. It's up to us to figure out how to keep that momentum going through reflection, admittance, and humble-journeying.
Jody
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