Concordia College Christmas Concert 

Moorhead, Minnesota

 

 

 

 

Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battle ever knew.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

 

 

 

 

Peace is not the absence of conflict

but the presence of creative alternatives

for responding to conflict — 

alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,

alternatives to violence.

~ Dorothy Thompson

 

 

 

 

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers,

hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul,

which are the causes of war.

If you love peace, then hate injustice,

hate tyranny, hate greed —

but hate these things in yourself,

not in another.

~ Thomas Merton

 

 

 

 

Party Time With Fun Neighbors

 

 

 

 

Our Rotary Party

(MUCH calmer than our Neighborhood Party!)

 

 

Chew and Chat at Karla's

 

Dinner at Bonefish and then

Cinderella at the Arvada Center

We had quite a time getting home after the show.  The snow had

closed I-70 and C-40 and we managed to finally get home on the

stroke of midnight.  Just like Cinderella!

 

 

 

Let there be peace on earth

And let it begin with me.

* Jill Jackson and

Seymour Miller

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 In the middle of the twentieth century, two young people wrote a “religious” song, “Let there be peace on earth”, at a retreat, at Camp Herman, in the San Francisco Bay Area hills. The rights for use of the song were granted to Rotary International by the authors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fjh6R8GixM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• First Reading Isaiah 40:1-11
• Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13
• Second Reading 2 Peter 3:8-15a
• Gospel Mark 1:1-8