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I liked this sermon

PostPosted: February 25th, 2009, 11:16 am
by deadwhitemale
http://www.r3.org/bosworth/stockton.html

Especially this part:

" We pause today to reflect upon death and upon life, to think of the vagaries of human existence that propel us from the depths to the heights and back again, that thrust us into prominence or obscurity, grant us fame or infamy, that give us riches and power or leave us impoverished, wounded, and desperate.

So much of what comes to us is beyond our control. Wealth, physical beauty, strength, intelligence, or their opposites are so seldom ours to choose that even those who seem in control of their destinies are often the puppets of forces well beyond their ken. Seldom do any of us--wealthy or poor, powerful or insignifi­cant--even realize what propels us or impedes us."


And this part:

" Five hundred years after the Battle of Bosworth Field there are details of history lost to us but known as well as if they had happened yesterday.

Let us think of the young woman who went into her decline with a permanent emptiness in her heart over a youthful love taken from her and a life of shared happiness never known.

Let us think of the parents who spent years remembering a baby boy playing in the kitchen, and how he was sacrificed in a battle of which they knew nothing and cared less.

Let us think of the young men who were as quickly forgotten as they were killed.

And let us think of the soldiers who came home in pain or blindness or with missing limbs and who led lives of enduring loss and despair."

Yeah.


DWM

Re: I liked this sermon

PostPosted: February 25th, 2009, 1:02 pm
by JRosemary