Sunday's writing was very powerful and humbling to me : " The creation narrative affirms a biblical understanding that all we are able to do originates with God's spirit that infuses our lives."

' forgive us our debts'

' forgive us our de as we forgive our debtors ' ..... seems to have taken on a deeper meaning this morning !

maybe I am too comfortable in my silence!

I do remember a neighbor's peacock and it was 500 yards away, but still annoying! Are we to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted? I have trouble being an annoying peacock!

I believe that God has a plan and we have free will to follow Him or not. I don't understand the violence in the Hebrew scriptures, but the New kingdom ushered in by Jesus is a kingdom of peace, which we are to participate in now; may it be so !