Tempus Per Annum means "Time Throughout The Year". In the liturgical church calendar, it is known as Ordinary Time - the long stretch between Easter and Advent. This is sometimes a grind and sometimes exhilarating and always Holy. We want to settle in and recognize this time of between.

TEXT:

Phillipians 4:4-9

TAKEAWAYS:

• Start a conversation with someone in your orbit who you don’t know and think you don’t want to know. It doesn’t have to be heavy right off. Ask good questions.

• Re-engage with someone you used to love and with whom you used to agree, but now maybe you don’t. Again, it doesn’t have to start off heavy. Ask good questions.

• Listen to or read someone with whom you disagree. Do so with an open heart.

• Before doing any of this, pray the Jesus prayer: 

  Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us.

• Next time you are angry and your fingers are on the keyboard or the words are heading for your mouth, stop.

  You can stop, stop, stop.

  For a girl can someday be a lady, and a boy can someday be a man.