Peace

4th Sunday at Hope UMC is always a bit different than the other 3 Sundays. We have a praise team to lead us that Sunday, we often see slides that are relevant to the scripture and sermon, and there is usually a theme. This morning’s theme was “Peace”, and we were to come to church dressed like us baby boomers dressed in the 60’s. You’d think I would have some of those clothes and accessories leftover, but I don’t. I wore a shirt that has some prints and jewels on, that looks similar to our tie dyed shirts back then. I also wore jeans that are not quite bell bottoms, but wide on the bottom. Many people looked very 60’s and hippy. We had flowers in the hair, sunglasses, peace symbols, a sign that said “Make love not war”, lots of dye tied shirts, peace sign jewelery and “love” beads. All of our congregational songs had to do with peace.

Our scripture was Mark 4:35-41, where Jesus calmed the storm when he and his disciples were in a storm in the middle of the night, on their fishing boat. The sermon was about the Peace that Jesus brings to us, not the peace that the world gives us. This was a good reminder, because the world doesn’t give us much peace.

I wonder if we will soon have a resurgence of the peace movement we had in the 60’s? We need to remember that the scriptures say that there will always be war and rumors of wars.

I hope you have peace. As the song goes “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me”.

Our closing song was “Go Now in Peace”. It was a peace filled Sunday morning. I hope to keep the peace going through the week.

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