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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">THE TWENTIETH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">PROVERBS 31:10-31 </span></div>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> My
daughter Kirsten wrote last week, “</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A woman approached our car earlier this evening
asking would I help her? I asked what she was needing. She asked for money,
stating that she and her daughter hadn’t eaten all day... no breakfast, lunch,
nothing. I let her know that I didn’t have any cash to help her out, and drove
away (we had been at a stop sign). <br>
“Joshua, from the back seat,
asks, ‘Mommy, why didn’t you give her the plums? They didn't eat all day, and I
hope they don’'t get really sick. They need food to be <span class="textexposedshow">strong like us’. My heart broke with hurt and with pride.
I’d forgotten about the plums in the seat next to me, so it hadn’t occurred to
offer them, but Joshua remembered. And he realized we are blessed ... we have
food, healthy food at that, regularly, and it nourishes us. ‘Why can't they
have that, too, Mommy? Next time, we will give her our plums.’</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow"> “I
am humbled and strengthened by this young person every day. I have much to
learn from him.” </span><sup>3</sup><span class="textexposedshow"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">For the past two weeks, BAC members
and leaders of the congregation have been taking part in classes to waken us to
what it means to ensure that this is a “Safe Church”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">What <b><u>DOES</u></b> it mean to be a safe church? Surely it’s a gathering of
Christians who insist that here everyone can find refuge, regardless of how
they look, how they act, how they live. A safe church, surely, is a place
where, regardless of any of the factors others may use about us and others,
those who come through the doors will be given encouragement, not put down, not
ignored, not shunned. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">A little more than a hundred years
ago, Francis Thompson wrote, “Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be
something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet
streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in
loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can
reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice
into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each
child has its fairy godmother in its soul; it is to live in a nutshell and to
count yourself the king of infinite space; it is<br>
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‘To see a world in a grain of sand,<br>
And a Heaven in a wild flower,<br>
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,<br>
And eternity in an hour;’<br>
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it is to know not as yet that
you are under sentence of life, nor petition that it be commuted into death.” <sup>4</sup><br>
It is about being human.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""> Andrea
Thornton, talking about “Local Woman in a Barley Field” illustration found
at <a href="http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20150913808380126&code=ACT&RC=54158&Row=1">http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20150913808380126&code=ACT&RC=54158&Row=1</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Arial",sans-serif">2</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Andrea Thornton, Op. cit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Arial",sans-serif">3</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Kirsten King on Facebook, 10<sup>th</sup>
September, 2015 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">4</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Francis Thompson 1859-1907 from the essay <i>“Shelley”</i> in the Dublin Review, July
1908 inner quote from William </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif">Blake, quoted in <i>“At
the Edge of the Enclosure. Soulwork Toward Sunday: Liturgical Year as Mystical
Journey”. </i>Proper 20 b September 20,
2015 Suzanne Guthrie <a href="http://www.edgeofenclosure.org/proper20b.html">http://www.edgeofenclosure.org/proper20b.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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