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Blessings for a wounded world

We remember 9/11
Thu, Sep 11 2014, 12:00am

From Bishop Beckwith's blog:

In the dangerous and violent world we live in today, we desperately need blessings. People want to be blessed. Blessings, if grounded in God and not in ideology, are an antidote to delusion. I invite you to join me in offering public blessings – blessings for a wounded world – on Thursday, September 11, a day remembered for its violence and danger. I will offer blessings at Penn Station in Newark, the soup kitchen across from Episcopal House – and at the newly refurbished Military Park outside our Cathedral.

You don’t have to be ordained to offer blessings. For clergy, blessings are visible and verbal. For non-clergy, God’s grace, mercy and hope can be offered silently or aloud. God is at work in the world – in Ferguson, West Africa, Gaza, Ukraine, Iraq and Syria – and at the southern border of the US. Not to mention the places of conflict in our own lives.

God is at work in the world. God is always offering blessings to a wounded world. Our blessings – along with our hands, feet, hearts – and hope, can join with what God is already up to. God needs our help.

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