FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ I HAVE GIVEN YOU AN EXAMPLE ~ 01 July 2018

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

 

 

I HAVE GIVEN YOU AN EXAMPLE

"If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another's feet. I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do." (John 13:14-15) "Surely, what I am commanding you today is not too hard for you, nor is it too far away. It is not heaven. Neither is it beyond the sea. It is very near to you . . . in your mouth . . . in your heart." (Deuteronomy 30:11-14)

Jesus commands us "to wash one another's feet". In other words, he wants us to lead a life of loving service. Jesus saw alienation, ingratitude, betrayal, hatred, and prejudice all around him. He saw that the only way that humankind would learn to live in peace, to treat each other with love and respect, was for him to give us the example of service to each other by the washing of the feet.

Have things gotten better almost two thousand years after the death of Jesus? Is humankind living in peace and harmony? Are we treating each other with respect and love? The answer is a big, "NO!" There is still alienation, ingratitude, hatred, and prejudice. What legacy are we adults leaving to these younger than us? We keep passing on our hatreds, prejudices, and low self- esteem. There appears to be a general feeling among us of "you are not part of my group, race, kind and clique." Due to these distinctions, humankind is setting itself up for extinction. Today's mass media is full of fresh reminders of the ways humans brutalize each other, seeking a scapegoat for the miseries of life. They set us against each other instead of mobilizing us to overcome the forces which oppress and divide all of us.

We all need to keep in mind the words of the German Pastor Niemoller: "First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out...because I was not a communist . . . Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me." Niemoller could have added, with equal historical truth and even more current relevance, the following..."They came for the handicapped . . . Then they came for the homeless . . . Then they came for the old . . . Then they came for the unborn." What I have just described is not someone else's world. It's our world, the kind of world we keep making, the kind of world we will leave behind. What is there to rescue us from our petty human distinctions of self and clan, of myself and my kind, except service to all, to humbly kneel before each other, taking the other's bare foot in our hands, washing it with the clean, refreshing water of forgiveness, love, and mutual respect.

LT Gabriel Mensah, CHC, USN

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Sounds like a good deal for that poor sailor. d:o)

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

[The Mayor]

Thank you Kathy. Relaxed this morning and worked this afternoon.
Church tomorrow and relax the rest of the day, I hope. : )
I hope you had some me time today.

Temps near 90, hot and humid, today, tomorrow, Monday and days next week.
It’s summer in Buffalo.

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Sunday morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

((HUGS))Good morning, Ladies. How's it going?

[left that other site]

My dear friend took the MBTA to Braintree Station and I picked her up there.

However, she had to ride the Green Line into Boston to make the change over to the Red Line so that she could ride the suburban extension to the nearest station to me.

She was stuck on a trolley car with hundreds of sign-carrying, virtue-signaling, hairy-armpitted, left-wing aging hippy wymyns who were going into Boston for their “protest”.

She lives and works in the most left-wing part of the Boston area, but she is “one of us”.

I felt so bad about what she went through that Penny and I drove her home at the end of the day so she would not be subjected to that outrage again.

[Publius]

The Kingston Trio: "MTA"

[left that other site]

LOL...I grew up singing that song.

“Citizens! hear me out!

THIS could happen to you!

[Kathy in Alaska]

YIKES!! Your poor friend having to put up with that idiocy!!

Glad you and Penny took her home.

[left that other site]

Indeed...I would not want her to get caught up with the protesters going home from a day of caterwauling in this heat.

They are going to have to HAZMAT the Trolley Cars!