If you could, would you turn the clock back? A columnist, writing in the Tulsa World, wrote "Maybe while praying for the America we want, we can remember the America we had." Those words awakened my memory, and I realized that we must not live in the past. We can use the past for guidance and inspiration, but we can't go back. We must go forward or we perish. To live is to change. The one thing that does not change is a fossil, and a fossil has been dead for a long time. We should not fear change.
- I remember the scourge of tuberculosis and polio epidemics, and I wouldn't want to go back to them.
- I remember when Presbyterians would not ordain women ministers and when anyone who sold alcoholic drinks was barred from membership, and when the Revised Standard Version of the Bible was assailed as heresy, and I wouldn't want to put the clock back for any of that.
To live is to change, and we ought not fear that.
With blessings and in friendship.
Richard
Announcements:
We were blessed to have Brian Dishman and his family in church yesterday. He and his wife Motoko and daughter Rina live in Japan. Rina played a special piano piece for our church service. Also, Brad, his wife Edith and daughter Madison were in attendance. We had a pew full of Dishmans.SUNDAY, July 1
4TH OF JULY POTLUCK
Drinks and meat will be provided.
Bring a side dish and join us for a delicious meal.
Following morning worship at 10:00.
The Reverend Nancy Covington will be here.
All are invited to Communion.
Liz Logan will prepare the communion elements and invite 2 Elders or Deacons to help serve.
Sue Ratcliff is Worship Asst. for July.
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