Secret O’ Life according to Jesus and James

February 26, 2011 Marie Noelle Duquette Observations Comments Off

YouTube – James Taylor – Secret O’ Life (With lyrics).

My friend Paula posted this on Facebook as I was working on tomorrow’s sermon on Matthew 6: 24 – 34: Do not worry about what you will eat or what you will wear…look at the lillies of the field…

I had never heard this James Taylor tune before much less read the words. It is a perfect sermonizing soundtrack.

On a wintry Saturday night thought I would post it for others who might enjoy it as I did.

Peace…

Marie Noelle Duquette

I notice connections between people, events, movies, music, writings, the spoken word, that seem independent of one another. I write and speak about these connections because I have been created for this work and it has the potential to draw people together and transform rough places into plains of peace. I was a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for twenty years. I remain a writer whose muse is active and insistent; a lover of new experiences; a dreamer of old. I am fueled by both music and silence; I appreciate truths that can only be conveyed in whispers, if in any language at all. I have more friends than I deserve, a big fat french family I adore, a partner whose love inspires my days. We share a cozy condo with our dog Nala, and cat, Picasso. My most palpable experience of God's presence took place in a chapel in Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. In that place, where every great world religion was depicted by both name and symbol, a miracle took shape in 2005 that continues to inform my faith today. I believe the key to world peace is our willingness to understand one another and take the risks required to do that. My two sons are some of God's finest work; they are a blessing to me and to the world. I thank God for every single day of this wonder we know as life. And I thank you, for stopping by to take off your shoes and step into the shoes of those whose stories I am privileged to tell.

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