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A Word of Hope from First Church
“Oh, how joyfully, oh, how hopefully, waits the world on Christmas Eve! Love comes healing, God revealing. Friends, be joyful and believe!”
— from a hymn by Brian Wren
“Justice is what love looks like in public.”
—
Cornel West from Call and Response,
“We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”
— William Gladstone (1809-1898)
“Don’t tell me
what you hope for. Tell me what you are doing to bring
it. Then you will know both patience — Joan Chittister
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” — W. T. Purkiser
“All things are possible for one who believes.” Mark 9:23 Naiveté some might say, but this congregation believes in the presence and power of a God who wanders with us in the deserts of our lives and the valleys of our mistakes. This congregation believes in a God who claims us, names us and loves us forever. This congregation believes and then responds to God’s love with thankful hearts and generous lives. Thanks be to God! — from the 2008 FUMC Stewardship Brochure
“Great social forces are the mere accumulation of individual actions. Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope, and that we worked together to heal the world.” — from The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
“The good news is that we don’t have to make this journey alone. There is ALWAYS One who stands there with us. And not only stands there but invades us with Spirit Presence and Power to practice our faith with integrity and in fidelity to the One we seek to follow.”
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From
Three Simple Rules,
“Love is not a doctrine. Peace is not an international agreement. Love and Peace are beings who live as possibilities within us.”
— From
Centering,
"The essence of optimism is not this or that view of the present situation, but strength, the strength to hope where others yield to resignation, the strength to keep one's head high when everything seems to go wrong, the strength to endure setbacks, the strength always to claim the future for oneself instead of yielding it to one's opponent." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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