CEC News Update and Forward Day by Day reading

CEC Breaking News!

….  Mrs. Jane Barnett will lead us in Morning Prayer August 25 and September 1^st  and 22^nd . Father Riley will lead in Holy Eucharist September 8^th, 15^th; 29th. 

…Please check out the diocesan website at  http://www.epiwla.org/  and register for  the upcoming evangelism event at Camp Hardtner, September 28.  The event features The Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers. Here is the note from the diocesan website:

Come to Camp Hardtner on September 28 to discover a fresh, humble, effective and Episcopal approach to the spiritual practice of evangelism. The Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers - Canon to the Presiding Bishop for Evangelism, Reconciliation and Stewardship of Creation - will lead an engaging and practical workshop that will offer basic training in evangelism as well as the Way of Love. This workshop is for everyone: clergy, lay leaders, and anyone else who desires to deepen their faith and learn how to share their faith story with others.

Forward Day by Day reading from August 22nd 2019: 

Psalm 131:2 I do not occupy myself with great matters, or with things that are too hard for me.

All our lessons today burst with intrigue. There is trouble in David’s court, and Absalom has just been killed. Paul’s imprisonment continues, and the plot thickens. In Mark, Jesus is wrapping up a fraught debate session with those wily priests and scribes.

Jesus tells us over and over that the going is going to get tough, faith-wise. No matter where a person of faith goes, from the most private monastic cell to the largest parish or ecclesiastical office, it is impossible to escape intrigue, debates, and thickening plots. People are people, after all. And even though God loves us, we can be real jerks.

It is a necessary spiritual discipline to resist occupying ourselves with things—or people—we can’t control. The God who made heaven and earth can handle being God; our job is to bask in that truth and let the rest of it go.

MOVING FORWARD: How do you understand the practice of letting go? Is it helpful to you? Why or why not?