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 David Park-Ramage, Minister

A message from our Minister

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

I've decided....

Hello Everyone!
So, I've decided this:  I want to be about Easter always and in all ways.  Despite all appearences, love, joy, beauty, peace -- RESURRECTION! -- is the foundation of my life.  Christ is risen in my whole life -- in every life (and if you are reading this -- in yours too).  Christ is risen in all beings, in creation itself. 

So, even when I feel bad, when I think that I'm sunk and the world is going to hell in a handbasket -- even when such thoughts become obessions and all the evidence seems to back me up -- even and especially then (how to punctuate this?) -- I want to be about Easter, to remember that Life is all, God is all and in all.  Every morning the Sun rises, and every day is filled with beauty.  

Then there is this thought:  on the day of my dying, it will still be beautiful.  I would like to be risen like that -- to remember that on the day I kiss it all good-bye, someone will be looking at the sun set over Mount Tamalpais and be lost in wonder.  

Love, 
David 

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