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- Up early, off to NCC to practice, only John there, fooled
around balancing sound. Picked up J, back - fiddled during the service.
- Out for a pleasant lunch with Daniel & Michelle, good
to see them & their house before they move.
- Listened to a
sermon: Inner Peace by
Gordon on
Luke 2:1-20
- Pop Psychology - sensory defensive
disorder (SDD), not recognised by the American Psychiatric
association - you can tell if you have it by a simple servey:
- Are you bothered by tags/labels in your clothes ?
- Are you annoyed by sounds that don't seem to
bother other people ?
- Does it bother you to walk barefoot on grass/sand ?
- Are you bothered by bright lights or garish colors,
or objects you think are too close to your face ?
- Do you avoid parties, even at Christmas, if you think
there will be a lot of people, because the noise bothers
you - and people stand close to you ?
- 3 answers out of 5 == SDD case, a candidate for Sharon Heller
(PhD in developmental psychnology). ~15% are supposed to suffer from
it. The cover of her book could trigger an episode though.
- Whatever the future of SDD, an analogy in the Spiritual realm.
An assault from stacks of unread mail, bills to pay, a TODO list that grows
indefinately. In the face of this, we can feel like a tightly wound spring.
What is the remedy ?
- The Price of Peace, - the inner peace that Christ brings. The
hostility between Jew and Gentile in the NT period, amazing - that Christ
would reconcile them, and meet with them.
- Frank Snowden - an authority on racial prejudice in the ancient
world 'Blacks in Antiquity' - makes this remarkable assertion: Christianity
swept racial barriers aside; in the early Church blacks found real equality.
'Simeon called Niger' & others in scripture; rich, poor, black, white -
3 black Africans that became Pope; nothing new - that Christ brings peace
where formerly there was alienation.
- Christ has also come to bring a sword; - such counter cultural
values create a threatened response - the sword in the other's hand.
- Live and let live - just a license for bystander apathy.
Instead we are called to love people in action - racial equality, questioning
the ethics of pre-emptive war, fighting for the weak and vulnerable etc.
- The peace - not that of forgotten sin, not that of an untroubled
concience, but a cleansed one. Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of
great joy that will be for all the people.
- Peace I give to you, my Peace I leave with you, I do not give
as the world gives... an unshakable confidence that he did all things
well. Glory to God in the highest and on the earth, peace and goodwill
towards men.
- Should get ahead some more, so not doing Christmas sermons
by Easter.
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In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
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Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
