• Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Ministry in Media
  • Ministry of Reconciliation
  • Ministry of Presence
  • Events
  Arthur Rouner Ministries

ARTHUR ROUNER MINISTRIES

Spring!  Spring!

3/23/2017

0 Comments

 
Written on March 19:

Sunday afternoon and I get to sit on our little balcony above the courtyard, our home here almost two years.  The sun is dropping on this last day of winter.  There is a hum of traffic, distant in the air.  A few filmy clouds create a western curtain into which the day sun slowly sinks.  Audible city sounds are distant enough to create a kind of silence, and out of that, peace for me.

I rejoice in the thought that tomorrow is spring's first day.  I feel it as hope, here in the middle of Lent.

The old rugged cross stood free on the platform in church today. Our sermon was GREED, its presence, its justifications, among the Christians.  We were asked, where are the Christians, giving up the money that seems to motivate most in our American culture?  It would seem to be the motive for almost everything, according to the news each day.

We don't see them because they are following Jesus' dictum of quiet humbleness about what they do, and what they give, and how they try to help others.  A young friend came and sat beside me in church this morning.  "I had a little op-ed in the paper this morning," he said.  I already knew its theme was "the world needs foreign aid."  He is a determined giver.  He wants his country to continue to be a giving people.

We are called to "feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to heal the sick".  We are called to care - about the world.  And yes, about our country.   But not to fear to give away from what we have to those who have little.

How much?  Each one's struggle.  Spring is Resurrection time, rebirth time, born again time.  Time to look anew at giving ourselves away, sharing the gifts we have.  Learning how to help others in this word of our great privilege.  Jesus is the Way.  He's the One who can help us.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Arthur A Rouner, Jr -
    Minister, Author, Leader of Forgiveness and Reconciliation Retreats, Minister of "Presence"

    Archives

    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. . ."
                                                                    2 Corinthians 5:18

Contact Us

>    Call the Faith Line for a daily message:  952-946-7987   <                                                                                    
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Ministry in Media
  • Ministry of Reconciliation
  • Ministry of Presence
  • Events