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Abundant Love, watercolour cards (my 100th)

Day 40 (Palm Sunday)  

In grateful response to God’s abundant love,       
     we bear in mind our integral connection       
     to the earth and one another;
we participate in God’s work of healing and mending creation.
To point to the presence of the holy in the world,       
     the church receives, consecrates, and shares       
     visible signs of the grace of God.
In company with the churches       
     of the Reformed and Methodist traditions,
we celebrate two sacraments as gifts of Christ:
baptism and holy communion.
In these sacraments the ordinary things of life
—water, bread, wine—
point beyond themselves to God and God’s love,       
     teaching us to be alert       
     to the sacred in the midst of life.  

How do you feel connected to the earth and others?
How does baptism point beyond itself to God and God’s love for you?
How do bread and wine point you to the sacred in the midst of life?
When have you experienced “the sacred in the midst of life”?
What other “ordinary things of life” have pointed you to God’s love?

 

 

All readings are from A Song of Faith; A Statement of Faith of the United Church of Canada, 2006.