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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Here
is a draft of my sermon on Mark 1:29-39 for February 8.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A final version will be posted to our
church web site at <A href="http://sjnj.org/">http://sjnj.org</A> by Monday
evening, God willing.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Peace
and blessings,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Joe<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">St.
John's Episcopal Church<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">61 Broad
Street<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H2>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Elizabeth,
New Jersey 07201<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><STRONG>The
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany (B)<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: left"
align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><STRONG>February
8, 2009<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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align=left><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><STRONG>DRAFT<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><STRONG>A
Sermon by the Rev. <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Joe
Parrish</st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">The Holy Gospel according to Mark
1:29-39<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hear our prayer, Dear
Lord, and let your Holy Spirit come to us through your Son, Jesus the
Christ.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Healing is a gift of
God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Healing is not something we
can develop from nothing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some
people are particularly gifted in healing; others seek that gift when perhaps
they should be developing another gift God has given them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But those with the gift of healing can
develop and hone that gift further if they are willing and have the time to do
so.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jesus came into the
world as a human baby, nurtured by a human mother and father, learning at the
feet of the rabbis of the time, reading the scriptures scrupulously and
thoroughly to find the truth his Father in heaven sought him to find.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And his studies took some twenty or more
years, part of which he was a devoted carpenter in his earthly father’s business
in Nazareth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The amazing thing is
that this carpenter suddenly becomes a healer, a teacher, an evangelist, and a
savior.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That was a miraculous
transformation that none of the gospels seem to explore.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Surely Jesus had within himself at his
youngest age all these abilities, but he only ‘came out’ at about age thirty,
was baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River, and then began proclaiming
the coming of the Kingdom of God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
find that seemingly sudden change of the course of his life something very
astonishing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jesus seems to burst
on the scene, ready to begin a local explosion of healings, teaching that God
intended for all humanity to become Sons of God, and willing to sacrifice his
own life for the purpose of saving all who would believe in him and his
message.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The story is absolutely
incredible when seen from a dispassionate level.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How could God have arranged such a
transformation in God’s Son that was so dramatic and seemingly so sudden.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The answer to that question remains a
mystery not told by any Biblical writer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But the Gospel according to Mark tries to paint the picture for us of
what explosive power Jesus exhibits in otherwise unremarkable circumstances,
beginning with his healing in a relatively unknown small village with perhaps a
maximum population at its peak of about a thousand people, the town of
Capernaum.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the scene from
Mark’s gospel that we read for today, Jesus comes to Peter and Andrew’s home, is
brought into the room where Peter’s mother-in-law was laid up with a fever, lays
hands on her, and lifts her up to begin to serve him and his disciples.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The disciples have already seen Jesus in
action in the synagogue where he drove out an “unclean spirit” from a man who
was there in the worship hall.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His
fame as a healer had sprung into full public glory.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>H. King Oemig, who
writes for the Episcopal publication called “Synthesis” published by some
scholars at Sewanee Episcopal Seminary in southern Tennessee, notes three points
about Jesus’ healing ministry: first, the faith of the person doesn’t seem to be
a necessary function of the healing in many instances--he notes that surely it
was not the faith of the four day dead Lazarus that raised Lazarus to life--it
was simply an action of the power of God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Secondly, King Oemig notes that Jesus’ healings are usually done so that
the healed ones can become witnesses of God’s power and can serve the Lord with
gratitude.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And thirdly, Jesus’
healings seem to stem from Jesus’ intimate connection and guidance from his
Heavenly Father, whom he seeks counsel with from time to time often out in
deserted places.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jesus seems to
hear the “still small voice” of his Father somewhat like what happened to Elijah
in the wilderness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The ‘mother of a
voice’ propelled Elijah back into the world, and it also seems to propel Jesus
back into the world to continue his ministry in other places so that the gospel
could be spread widely in the limited time Jesus had until his
crucifixion.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was befuddled when
one of my patients at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan on September 11, 2001,
began to die in front of my very eyes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>She was in good spirits, or so it seemed, when I left her bedside on
September 14, an emaciated woman, but alive on that Friday, but on Monday,
September 17, when I next came into her room I saw an even further emaciated,
gray looking person, with very sunken eyes, barely able to talk, and clearly
dying right before my eyes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was
so taken aback that I couldn’t imagine what had happened.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I knew she had been one of only twelve
people who survived above the 86<SUP>th</SUP> Floor of Building Two before it
collapsed—she worked on the 103<SUP>rd</SUP> Floor.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was in the top elevator lobby on the
78<SUP>th</SUP> Floor of the World Trade building when the second 767 jet made a
direct hit into that floor, immediately killing or severely disabling all but a
dozen people who were standing there waiting to take the elevators down to the
ground.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>After the horrendous plane
crash and fireball, she dimly saw her boss lying helplessly paralyzed on the
floor and many of her colleagues there dead or dying.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Still in the dark and with a broken
wrist she was able to feel around the perimeter of the wall and find her lost
but slightly burned purple shoe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>She put the shoe on, walked around the tangled bodies and broken glass,
and exited to the one remaining intact escape stairwell of the building she
walked down to the 44<SUP>th</SUP> floor as the building was swaying its final
death sway, trying to assure herself that she was only dancing her way down so
she wouldn’t focus on how precariously the teetering and burning building was
twisting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When she finally got to
the 44<SUP>th</SUP> Floor elevator lobby she encountered fire fighters coming up
to try to rescue those in the floors above her; she got into a debate with them
over how she was to escape the building as quickly as possible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was probably less than ten minutes
later that the building collapsed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In those minutes the fire fighters convinced her quickly to take the one
functioning elevator down to the second floor lobby, where she was able to walk
outside and nearly collapse on one of the stone ledges of the building
plaza.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Her picture was featured on
the front page of the New York Times that day, covered with blood, and cradling
her face in her hands.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Her trauma
had been intense, but she had survived and would survive, thanks be to
God.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I was presented on
Monday, September 17, with a young woman who was dying after escaping against
all odds.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I felt so
helpless.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I knew she was a
non-practicing Jew and recalled my very bright allergy doctor, also a
non-practicing Jew, and thought to myself that he may know some way to save
her.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I called him, explained the
situation, how I had observed some heated discussion she had had with a
dietician, and we concluded she was refusing to eat the hospital food and was
starving to death.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Her trauma had
made her strict adherence to some sort of unique personal diet even more rigid,
denying herself sustenance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
wise doctor said, “Find out what she will eat, and feed her.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What a simple solution, but it took a
call to an allergist, of all people, to awaken in me the obvious solution.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The long and short of the story was that
I found out she lived on essentially a bread only diet and loved bagels, which I
was able to supply her with from my local gourmet Egyptian Muslim bagel
factory.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That doctor had the still
small voice inside him that was able to direct my action.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And my patient lives yet
today.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I and that doctor had
been her healing team.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God still
had a plan for her, even though today I don’t know what that plan was.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But she evidenced the courage of a
survivor, and the very slender woman really gave many of us a very slender ray
of hope on that fateful day.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was then able to
turn my pastoral resources to the other patients then.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some had burns over 90 percent of their
body and were bandaged from head to foot--the burning jet fuel had spilled down
the elevator shaft and burned people when the elevator doors opened in front of
them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Another had a crushed knee
and leg from being in a free falling elevator.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Another, a fire fighter, had been blown
dozens of yards away from the collapsing building as he guarded the building’s
entrance and the shaft of air blew out the front door violently like an
accordion as the floors above pancaked together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Another had nearly suffocated on the
plaster dust at ground level, and so on.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Finally all 405
injured people who had come to that hospital from the two buildings
survived.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was indeed a miracle
for them.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Flight 1459 a few
weeks ago landed in the Hudson River.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Its pilot was a glider instructor and was an expert in landing unpowered
aircraft.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Its crew were the most
experienced of that airline.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
river wasn’t frozen over as it is today.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The ferries were running at rush hour.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And all 156 people and crew escaped
alive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was another healing
miracle only a few hundred yards from where the World Trade Towers had
stood.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We live in quite a sacred
area, I think.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lives around us were
spared against all odds.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The huge
apartment complex at Route 1 and 9 and Flora Street burned completely to the
ground last year, and every one escaped alive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The healing presence of the Lord was
with us and with all of those survivors.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Healing and miraculous
deliverance nowadays often comes to more than one at a time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We live in a far more crowded place than
probably any at Jesus’ time experienced.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The potential for disaster is greater, the likelihood of death and injury
is greatly increased, and the need for skilled rescuers becomes even more
necessary.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a far more complex
world we live in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everything moves
faster, and the distinction between death and life is honed to a razor’s
edge.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a word, only God
can save us.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am a believer that
the unclean spirits are still with us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is a sort of mass hysteria that has gripped the entire financial
world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Houses are not
worthless.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Property is not
worthless.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jobs are still
needed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And people still need to
work.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But somehow we have lost our
way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Confidence is at an all time
low.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every rally on Wall Street is
a “bear rally”, ready to collapse in a few days on really little to no
news.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Investment accounts are a
third to a half what they were a few months ago.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>People’s life savings have been cut
dramatically.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And many of us don’t
expect ever to be able to retire.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The “Baby Boomer”
crisis predicted for Social Security has arrived much sooner than almost anyone
expected, and it wasn’t Social Security that was the ultimate
cause.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of my insightful
friends notes that sooner or later people will wake up to the fact that people
have to live somewhere, that housing has some real value, and when property
reaches that real value, the financial markets will end their freefall.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Getting to that real value point,
however, will be traumatic, and turmoil will reign for quite some time before we
begin to “see the light at the end of the tunnel.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So if you are stressed
out by the disappearance of your pension savings, bear up, they will return in
time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you feel ill or depressed
by all the negative news, just turn off the telly--their reports are all they
have to able to save their jobs by keeping you in suspense over things that
neither they nor you understand nor can do anything about.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Take some time away;
go to a deserted place to hear what God wants you to do for God’s kingdom.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Focus on that still small voice that
will advise you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And go out
everywhere to proclaim the message of Christ: repent, for the kingdom of God is
at hand.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen. </SPAN></P>
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