CHURCH of the NEBULAS SPIRIT
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Sunday, December 28, 2003
This Weeks Sermon: Fingers Crossed!
Sorry I’m late today! I was visiting one of our parishioners in the hospital. Visiting the ill is part of my job even though I really hate hospitals. Fortunately this patient is not facing a life threatening condition or anything like that.
Which is a good thing seeing as how The Third Church has no real “sacraments for the sick”. No magical feel good blessings or special dispensations. No Communion or Last Rites. .
We don’t profess to know anything about what happens after death. I’m sure I mentioned this back when we first opened our doors but I thought now might be a good time to repeat it. That once you die.. once the flesh and the soul are separated well.. I’m afraid you’re on your own.
We really are the church of the “living” soul.
Still, even though I find all this talk about death and dying to be creepy and uncomfortable, it is still part of my job to visit the sick and infirmed.
And so I do. And that is why I was late today.
Actually the person I was visiting was in the Chemical Dependency Unit.. In Detox. Which I find almost as creepy and uncomfortable to talk about as death and dying! Maybe even creepier!
It is a bit unnerving to see how people that are trying to kick a habit are sometimes dealt with. How they are managed and manipulated. And how one crutch is often replaced with another (in many cases it’s religion).
In all my years I’ve seen many cool people go down behind addiction. I’ve also seen just as many go down behind recovery too. There is no easy answer to this problem. In fact I believe there is no real answer at all.
So keep your fingers crossed and just hope you’ve got all your priorities in perspective.
Then go out and just try to have a very Happy New Year!
the word was delivered at:
.........................Sorry I’m late today! I was visiting one of our parishioners in the hospital. Visiting the ill is part of my job even though I really hate hospitals. Fortunately this patient is not facing a life threatening condition or anything like that.
Which is a good thing seeing as how The Third Church has no real “sacraments for the sick”. No magical feel good blessings or special dispensations. No Communion or Last Rites. .
We don’t profess to know anything about what happens after death. I’m sure I mentioned this back when we first opened our doors but I thought now might be a good time to repeat it. That once you die.. once the flesh and the soul are separated well.. I’m afraid you’re on your own.
We really are the church of the “living” soul.
Still, even though I find all this talk about death and dying to be creepy and uncomfortable, it is still part of my job to visit the sick and infirmed.
And so I do. And that is why I was late today.
Actually the person I was visiting was in the Chemical Dependency Unit.. In Detox. Which I find almost as creepy and uncomfortable to talk about as death and dying! Maybe even creepier!
It is a bit unnerving to see how people that are trying to kick a habit are sometimes dealt with. How they are managed and manipulated. And how one crutch is often replaced with another (in many cases it’s religion).
In all my years I’ve seen many cool people go down behind addiction. I’ve also seen just as many go down behind recovery too. There is no easy answer to this problem. In fact I believe there is no real answer at all.
So keep your fingers crossed and just hope you’ve got all your priorities in perspective.
Then go out and just try to have a very Happy New Year!
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