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Unknown's avatar Rev. David J. Schreffler 11:44 am on September 4, 2015
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See, Touch, Taste and Feel — Rev. David J. Schreffler

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See, Touch, Taste and Feel
Is anything in this room even real?

Day upon day we move to the sound
Of Life and Love their particles found

Within the souls of people who keep
The memories of everything hidden deep

Inside the hard drives of computers that scan
The Nano properties of each woman and man

Reduces each one of us to Bits and Bytes
Stored on the Supercomputers of life

One day we realize we no longer see
We only recall what THEY want us to be

Then desperate we reach out trying to touch
But our sensory motors are not used as such

And taste is lost to the ravages of time
As our souls are copied to destruction; we find,

We can no longer see, touch, taste or feel
Because there is nothing left that is real!

Unknown's avatar Rev. David J. Schreffler 4:44 am on September 4, 2015
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“Is There Anybody Out There?” — Rev. David J. Schreffler

 

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September 4, 2015

“Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves; and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.   He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written,
‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’?” Mark 11:15-17

“Prayers are not always — in the crude, factual sense of the word — “granted”. This is not because prayer is a weaker kind of causality, but because it is a stronger kind. When it “works” at all it works unlimited by space and time. That is why G*d has retained a discretionary power of granting or refusing it; except on that condition prayer would destroy us.” C.S. Lewis (1898 – 1963) G*d In the Dock “For All The Saints” volume II (p. 489)

Let it be said, Prayer is so hard. Period, end of statement. How easy is it for you to talk to yourself? Some are good at it, others think only crazy people talk to themselves. But, did you ever realize that prayer, from the outsiders point of view, is just you talking to yourself.

Has this ever happened to you: you are alone with someone in an elevator, and they say something like “Hey, how’s it going?” You do not know this person – never have seen them before – and, wondering why they are talking to you, you respond “I’m fine. How are you?” They look at you strangely, and turn their head to reveal they have one of those “blue tooth devices” in their ear for their phone, revealing that they are talking on the phone, not talking to you. There was a time, not so long ago, when you saw someone walking down the street talking to themselves you thought the person may need some “help”. Now, we just ignore them because most likely they are talking on a device.

Remember, when you pray you are not “talking to yourself” — you are talking to the ever present G*d. And you will find that your prayer life goes through periods of abundance, and periods of lacking. But, the more you pray, the more people may wonder what you are doing. It may give you the opportunity to talk to them about prayer….

Pastor Dave