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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>"<span style='color:black'>How do we love ourselves?</span>" is a sermon for November 5, 2017, All Saints Observed, the first one at <span style='color:black'><a href="http://sjnj.com/media_view.php"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://sjnj.com/media_view.php</span></a> and is based on Matthew 5:1-12</span>. <span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>In day to day living we are called to be different, counter-intuitive, and even possibly ‘totally out of it’ as viewed by the rest of society if we actually follow the Beatitudes of Christ. They confound the world. They challenge the way we see things, and they totally upset the way most people think things ‘ought’ to work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white'>Peace and blessings,</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white'>Joe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white'>(Preaching at the Episcopal Church of the </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Divine Love, Montrose<span style='color:black'>, New York)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>