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5-6-2012 Sunday Service of the Church Within #811
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Today's Service is offered by: Pastor Daniel J. Megow
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Humor of the Week
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If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
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Welcome by: Pastor Daniel
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Greetings my Beloved Sisters and Brothers, and welcome once again to the Church that is Within. You are the Temple. You are the Congregation. Any and All Truth is the Gospel. The Divine Spirit within you is your True Minister.
Jill and I just got back home from our vacation last night. We got to the “Surfrider Resort” in Depoe Bay on the Oregon Coast late afternoon Tuesday and went for a relaxing dinner before we settled into out room. I got to go out crabbing and bottom fishing early Wednesday morning and came back with 2 Dungeness Crabs and 6 Black Bass. Our really good friends arrived at their room at the Surfrider Thursday afternoon and the four of us shared Crab and Fish for dinner along with a generous quantity of Excellent wine and companionship. The two of us into rock hunting got to the beach for low tide Thursday at 5:30am and spent a few hours finding Agates and Jasper and whatever attracted our eye. Our friends did dinner for us all Friday evening… more wine and played games. Then Saturday morning Jill and I packed up for the 10 hour drive home. Now that we're back home we can relax and reflect…
The topic of today's Sunday Service, #811, is a few “re_____” words…
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The Sermon
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In the Physical life, the Body and Mind need regular interludes from the repetitive requirements of survival with adequate time to be…
Readjusted…
Restored…
Revived…
Refreshed…
Rejuvenated…
Renewed…
In the Spiritual Life of the Soul and Spirit, these “re's” are perhaps even More Essential.
People can do it With you, but they can't do it For you.
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Quotes
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(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-48 Section-4)
Humor and play--relaxation--are never reactions of progressive exertion; always are they the echoes of a backward glance, a reminiscence of the past. Even on Urantia [ed: Earth] and as you now are, you always find it rejuvenating when for a short time you can suspend the exertions of the newer and higher intellectual efforts and revert to the more simple engagements of your ancestors.
(From: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu)
To be worn out is to be renewed.
(From: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Essay: Nature)
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
(From: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
(From: Susan Taylor)
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
(From: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
(From: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-156 Section-5)
Believers must increasingly learn how to step aside from the rush of life--escape the harassments of material existence--while they refresh the soul, inspire the mind, and renew the spirit by worshipful communion.
(From: Okakura Kakuzo)
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
(From: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.
(From: Audrey Hepburn)
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed;
(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-102 Section-3)
Religious experience is the realization of the consciousness of having found God. And when a human being does find God, there is experienced within the soul of that being such an indescribable restlessness of triumph in discovery that he is impelled to seek loving service-contact with his less illuminated fellows, not to disclose that he has found God, but rather to allow the overflow of the welling-up of eternal goodness within his own soul to refresh and ennoble his fellows. Real religion leads to increased social service.
(From: Margaret Wheatley)
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
(From: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet)
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
(From: Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love)
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.
(From: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted,
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning
Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
(From: “Jesus” - The Urantia Book - Paper-130 Section-6)
"This day, my son, you are to be reborn, re-established as a man of faith, courage, and devoted service to man, for God's sake. And when you become so readjusted to life within yourself, you become likewise readjusted to the universe; you have been born again--born of the spirit--and henceforth will your whole life become one of victorious accomplishment. Trouble will invigorate you; disappointment will spur you on; difficulties will challenge you; and obstacles will stimulate you. Arise, young man! Say farewell to the life of cringing fear and fleeing cowardice. Hasten back to duty and live your life in the flesh as a son of God, a mortal dedicated to the ennobling service of man on earth and destined to the superb and eternal service of God in eternity."
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The Prayer
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Dear God,
Thanks for Everything!
You ALL are Within the Infinitely Loving Embrace of our Universal Parent,
The Creator's Infinite Love to all of You,
Pastor Daniel
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