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April 2019

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and Message from the Tuscarawas District Superintendent, Rev. Benita Rollins

From the DS...You Decide

Soren Kierkegaard tells the parable about a flock of geese. Each Sunday the geese would gather in the shade of the barn to hear the gander preach on the glorious destined of geese.

They would hear a description week after week on how they were created to fly. Meanwhile the geese were getting more plump until at Christmas (Thanksgiving, Easter (my addition)). They were eaten; having never experienced the exhilaration of real flight. They became too domesticated and did not fulfill their true purpose.

Is there a Lent or Easter message for us in this parable?

Similarly, there is a story that went around the conference many years ago that a pilot told the passengers, “This is your captain speaking, today we will be cruising at an altitude of 30,000 feet, at a speed of 600 miles per hour. We will be serving breakfast over Canada and Greenland. We will take off as soon as I get my nerve up!”

Is there a Lent or Easter message for us in this story for us?

Friends, whatever the stories mean to you, they do not ultimately define us.

We belong to God. God is not through with any of us yet. Resurrection is the new order of the day; it will be consummated.

Resurrection Joy and Blessings,
Benita

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