Confusion, then Clarity



Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, "Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have." And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?" They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence. Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you — that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled." Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things."

Luke 24:36-48

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Jesus’ Hand Reaches Out to the Children

Sculpture, freestanding
Washington Cathedral

Washington, DC

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-viewimage.pl?SID=20120417854919433&code=&RC=54876&Row=&code=act&return=act






I shut my eyes in order to see.
~ Paul Gauguin

 

 

 

The moments when we meet and reckon with contradictions

are turning points where we either enter or evade

the mystery of God.
~ Parker Palmer

 

 

 

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Linda Lovin, Ann Moore, and Dale Lovin

at a Dine-Around Dinner at the Moore’s VERY green home this week.

Dale is a former FBI agent and I read his first novel,

The Mirror in the River, while we were in Hawaii.

http://dalelovin.com/

 

 

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Joan and Emily at Bunco on Tuesday evening.

 

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Van, Ginny, and Joan at Book Club Thursday afternoon.
We read Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, which was delightful.

 

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Jane Weinberger, the Director at the Senior Resource Center,

pours wine at a very nice Volunteer Appreciation Event Thursday Evening.

 

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Ashley Shuyler was home from Stanford and came to Rotary.

Here she is with Bill Manning.

http://www.africaid.com/

 

 

 

 

I believe in God with all my doubts.

                       ~ Madeleine L’Engle

 

 April 22, 2012 Third Sunday of Easter

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Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
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Acts 3:12–19

Ps. 4

1 John 3:1–7

Luke 24:36b–48