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Illustrations Despair Peacemaking | Peacemaking |
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A young man was shot to death in an underworld gang-war. He had a wonderful mother, a deeply religious person. But she had died when the boy was quite young and he had been cared for by the father, an alcoholic drifter. The boy grew up in and out of the edges of the underworld, and finally went to work for a gambling syndicate. Nobody knows exactly what happened, but he was shot down in cold blood. The day of his funeral was cold and rainy. At the cemetery, those who came were almost ankle-deep in mud. The clergyman did all he could to lend a morsel of dignity to the situation. The dead man's father was standing beside the grave with his hat in his hand. The funeral director moved to his side and quietly told him that it was time to leave. The father pushed him aside and said, "I want to pray." Then he knelt beside his son's open grave with his hat in his hand and he looked up and, in total agony, he said, "My son, my son, your mother deserves something better of us than this." When we, as a Christian People, look back on our record of "peacemaking" we must be willing to face it honestly and cry out, "Almighty God deserves something better of us than this." Quote this article on your site | Views: 243 | Print | E-mail
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Lectionary Passages for October 12th 2008
[Year A]
Proper 23(28)
Exodus 32:1-14
Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23
Matthew 22:1-14
Philippians 4:1-9
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