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Pentecost...
May 27, 2012
Marks the end of the Easter Season
A Lesson to be Learned
Retirement has continued to teach me a lot. As I watch the desert plants go from season to season, the thing that always amazes me is that from a somewhat ugly cactus comes a very beautiful bloom. That bloom for many cactus come out during the night and last for only a day and then it weathers away.
Being the perfectionist, I am I continue to learn that God seems to work the most in my imperfections. The cactus does not seem all that beautiful and then something beautiful comes forth.
God seems to have me where He wants right now, and I continue to spiritually learn more and more. What an adventure. Moving from thinking I am perfect to recognizing the gift of my imperfections.
Does that make sense???
Are you familiar with the sad American Indian story about a young man who found an eagle's egg and put it into the nest of a prairie chicken?
The eaglet hatched with the brood of prairie chickens and grew up with them. All its life, the misplaced eagle thought it was a prairie chicken and did only what the prairie chickens did.
It scratched in the dirt for seeds and insects to eat. And it flew no more than a few feet off the ground with a thrashing of wings like other prairie chickens.
Years passed and the unfortunate eagle grew very old. One day, it saw a magnificent bird high above in the cloudless sky.
Hanging with graceful majesty on the powerful wind currents, it soared gracefully on its strong golden wings. "What a beautiful bird!" said the unfortunate eagle to its neighbor. "That's an eagle, the chief of the birds," the neighbor replied, "But don't give it a second thought. You could never be like him."
So the poor eagle never gave it a second thought and it died thinking it was a prairie chicken.
A Thought Worth Considering
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The Ascension
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Cycle B
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THREE NUNS WERE ATTENDING A YANKEE BASEBALL GAME.
THREE MEN WERE SITTING DIRECTLY BEHIND THEM. BECAUSE THEIR HABITS WERE PARTIALLY BLOCKING THE VIEW,THE MEN DECIDED TO BADGER THE NUNS, HOPING THEY'D GET ANNOYED ENOUGH TO MOVE TO ANOTHER AREA.
IN A VERY LOUD VOICE, THE FIRST GUY SAID, "I THINK I'M GOING TO MOVE TO UTAH ..THERE ARE ONLY 100 NUNS LIVING THERE."
THEN THE SECOND GUY SPOKE UP AND SAID LOUDLY, "I WANT TO MOVE TO MONTANA .THERE ARE ONLY 5O NUNS LIVING THERE."
THE THIRD GUY YELLED, "I WANT TO GO TO IDAHO .THERE ARE ONLY 25 NUNS LIVING THERE."THE MOTHER SUPERIOR TURNED AROUND,
LOOKED AT THE MEN,AND IN A VERY SWEET AND CALM VOICE SAID,
"WHY DON'T YOU GO TO HELL...THERE AREN'T ANY NUNS THERE.
Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven...
