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   NARNIA !

SRSR002  "Love, Sex, Pain & Death"
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SRSR 000   "Love, Sex, Pain & Death"

OVERVIEW: The world of love, sex, pain, and death lies somewhere between ashes and heaven.  See Station Block below.

KEYWORDS: Death, Life, Beauty, Pain, Ontology, Exisitence, Suffering, Human Nature, Being

SCRIPTURE: Song of Solomon 7:6-10, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, 2 Corinthians 4:6 - 5:3
 

SETUP:

Front: Mirror laying flat with a pile of ashes laying on it to the right, and a fresh cut flower to the left.
Back above mirror: Picture of Share Cropper Mother
in plexiglass stand on top of crate turned on tall end for height. Even higher above is the Stain Glass windows - representing Heaven
TO THE RIGHT: In Front Scroll block, in back Little Table with Trinity Candle.
TO THE LEFT: Response cards in holder

SPECIAL MATERIALS:  Photo, Ashes and fresh flowers
 

RESOURCES:

    PHOTOGRAPH:
                http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?CID=FBEDC5B62E6444998CC4872E9B7DD43B&txtSearch=migrant+worker&CID=FBEDC5B62E6444998CC4872E9B7DD43B&startat=%2Fsearchadvanced.asp%3FCID%3DFBEDC5B62E6444998CC4872E9B7DD43B&imageField2.x=17&imageField2.y=16


    STATION BLOCK:

Text Box: Step 2 Text Box:  Look down at the Ashes – God made us more than Dust when he breathed the gift of life into us … Text Box: Step 4 Text Box: Can you see both hope and despair, beauty and desolation in this photograph?   As you leave, take a Reflection Card … Text Box: Step 3 Text Box: Look at the Photograph - We live somewhere between Ashes and Heaven. We live in the middle place where life and death, pleasure and suffering meet… Text Box: Step 1 Text Box: Look up at the Stained Glass – God made us a little lower than the angels…

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Text Box:   “TThe First Rule of St. Benedict” Adapted by L.B.  Palmer from J. McQuiston who Adapted from St. Benedict 480 – 587 AD   The first rule is simply this:             Live this life           And do whatever is done           In the Spirit of Thanksgiving   Place at His Feet:           Your Desire for Certainty           Your Desire for Security           Your Desire to be Full           Your Anxiousness           Your Worries           Your Fears   And come to comfortable Rest In the certainty that those Who participate in this life with an attitude of Thanksgiving, Who trust in the faithfulness of their Maker, Who humbly walk with their God - Will receive the full promise. Text Box:   “The First Rule of St. Benedict” Adapted by L.B.  Palmer from J. McQuiston who Adapted from St. Benedict 480 – 587 AD   The first rule is simply this:             Live this life           And do whatever is done           In the Spirit of Thanksgiving   Place at His Feet:           Your Desire for Certainty           Your Desire for Security           Your Desire to be Full           Your Anxiousness           Your Worries           Your Fears   And come to comfortable Rest In the certainty that those Who participate in this life with an attitude of Thanksgiving, Who trust in the faithfulness of their Maker, Who humbly walk with their God - Will receive the full promise.  

 

 

 


 

 

Text Box: REFLECTION CARD What is human existence really like ?  The great philosopher Pascal wrote of what a mixed bag we are:   “Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, repository of truth, sink of doubt and error, glory and refuse of the universe!  Who will unravel such a tangle?  This is certainly …beyond all human philosophy.  Man transcends man.…[T]he truth lies…in heaven, lying in the lap of God, to be known only in so far as it pleases him to reveal it…[H]ear from your master your true condition, which is unknown to you.  Listen to God…  It is not through the proud activity of our reason but through its simple submission that we can really know ourselves… [131].  It is in vain that you seek within yourselves the cure for your miseries.  All your intelligence can only bring you to realize that it is not within yourselves that you will find either truth or good [Penses 199].    Since man transcends man’s reason, it is God who must reveal our nature to us.  Thus the first step of inquiry can only take us to the brink of the second step – the need to submit to God which will allow us to see our true nature.   Which side of our nature and of life do you tend to see more – the  broken, fallen, pessimistic side or the exalted optimistic side ?   Why is this so ?   NOTE: This is an excerpt  from “ How Then Shall We Live ? -An Analysis of the Spiritual Theology of Pascal’s Pensees”  by Pastor Langdon which is available at www.SouthRidgeWorship.com  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

see http://www.southridgeworship.com/1st_rule_of_st__bennedict.htm