Listen to Readings and Sermon 7For thus says the Lord: Sing aloud with gladness… and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise… 8See, I am going to… gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with child and those in labor, together; [...]
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7For thus says the Lord: Sing aloud with gladness… and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise… 8See, I am going to… gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with child and those in labor, together; a great company, they shall return here. 9With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will let them walk by brooks of water, in a [direct] path in which they shall not stumble…
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The Good News Written
The Light of the Dhammapada
“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind.”
The light of Malinda Elliott Cramer and Fannie Brooks James (from Divine Science: Its Principle & Practice)
“Being whole must be our realization. We unfold health eternal. The individual, as an expression of the universal Life, can be only what that Life is. The Infinite created us out of its own health; healing is the awareness of that health as our nature.”
Mark 10.46-52 (NRSV)
As [Jesus] and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus…, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. 47When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” 48Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” 49Jesus stood still and said, “Call him here.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart; get up, he is calling you.” 50So throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. 51Then Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “My teacher, let me see again.” 52Jesus said to him, “Go; your faith has made you well.” Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the way.
The Good News Proclaimed
Preached by the Reverend Doctor Durrell Watkins at the Sunshine Cathedral on Sunday, October 25, 2009.
Let me take you to the mid-sixties. Baby Durrell takes up residence on the planet in late 1966, exactly 9 months after Sophie Tucker dies… I’m just saying. And I don’t know what my first word was or when I spoke it, when I was potty trained or when I took my first step. But I do know the first song I ever learned. My parents taught it to me, and by age 3 or 4, I was entertaining them and other relatives with it. I didn’t know exactly what it meant, but it was the only song I knew… and so I sang it over and over and over. It wasn’t Mary Had a Little Lamb, and it wasn’t the Alphabet song… it was from a Broadway musical. Yes, as God as my witness, the first song I ever learned was a show-tune. And now you know the rest of the story.
So just imagine if you will, Toddler Durrell singing sweetly, “When the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligns with Mars; then peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars. This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius, the age of Aquarius. Aquarius! Aquarius!” Continue reading »
