SEE YOURSELF
Open your eyes, see yourself in the one who's shining on the hill,
hear the voice say to you: "This is the one that I love."
1. See yourself in the waters of the Jordan, baptised into all that Christ will do.
Go to your Jerusalem,
eat and watch and pray with him,
take your cross and follow on the way.
2. See yourself in the healing of the lepers,
see yourself in the raising of the dead
hear what demons say to him,
be denied, betrayed with him,
die and rise up each and every day.
3. See yourself in the resurrected daughter,
see yourself in the wand’rer welcomed home.
‘He was dead but lives again!’
We can celebrate with him,
like the angels when the lost is found.
Robin Mann © 1994, 2004
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The preaching helps in the Lutheran School of Chicago's Currents gave me this song. Thank you, Eldon L. Olson from Seattle! Writing about Jesus' transfiguration, he quoted the Odes of Solomon: "Behold, the Lord is our mirror. Open your eyes and see them in him, and learn the manner of your own face" (Ode 13). I underlined the next sentence: "The transfiguration is a vision of the Christ in which we behold who we really are." He also brought out the close links between this event and Jesus' journey to Jerusalem — after the brightness on the mountain it's the shadow of the valley. |
ALWS 5/10/23
To say I've been inactive on my website is a serious understatement! I've written nothing here since early 2021.
So, does this mean the world has stopped for us, that nothing is happening?
A major event for us in 2022 was moving house in October. We had been in Modbury Heights since July 1993.Now we're back in Klemzig.
In May we travelled to the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia, seeing work supported by Australian Lutheran World Service. Dorothy and I are Ambassadors for the ALWS programme, Lives You Touch. We are encouraging people to leave money in their will for the work of ALWS. We committed to leave a third of our will many years ago and hope many others can touch lives in this way.
Since then we have visited Box Hill & Loxton with Jonathan & Julie Krause as part of the Asante presentations, promoting the cause of ALWS. Still to come this year are Asante events in Toowoomba & Rochedale (Nov 26 & 27) and Perth (Dec 10)
Looking forward to seeing many people on these occasions.