14 May 2006.... Without hope and Agenda

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers and Happy ...... whatever significance this day brings.........

Taken from a church bulletin:

It is never easy to love in practical terms. The decision to live love in truth and deed has its price. It demands that we drop all prejudices and suspicions about others and be open to receiving people in faith and trust. This takes a great deal of risking on our part but this is what love is all about - to risk oneself for the sake of loving others.

How true?
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"I am the vine and you are the branches."

It is this deep, intimate life-giving relationship that Jesus yearns to share with us. He says it quite simply: make the choice to abide in him and bear abundant fruit or make the decision to live apart from him and bear nothing. The message is very telling: we are either fruitful branches which means we live in love or we are branches cut off from the vine which means that we are unable or unwilling to love.

Hmmm.. is everything so clear cut? Is there an in-between?