Timberline Old Town

TEXT Ephesians 4:2-6, 29-32   TAKEAWAYS 1 Life is awful beautiful   2 Be gentle with our souls 3 Let them love you.  I know you don’t always believe it, but your limp makes you even more beautiful. 4 Pay attention.  It’s hard to imagine that nothing at all could be so exciting, so much fun.   BENEDICTION  Let us praise the grace & risk of Fire. In the beginning The Word was red, And the sound was thunder, And the wound in the unseen Spilled forth the red weather of being. In the name of Fire, The Flame, And the Light: Praise the pure presence of fire That burns from within Without thought of time. The hunger of fire has no need For the reliquary of the future; It adores the eros of now, Where the memory of the earth In flames that lick and drink the air Is made to release Its long enduring forms In a powder of ashes Left for the wind to decipher. As air intensifies the hunger of fire, May the thought of death Breathe new urgency Into our love of life. As fire cleanses dross May the flame of passion