Moment of Clarity With Rev. Lorrie Daly-Price

Moment of Clarity With Rev. Lorrie Daly-Price

By Rev. Lorrie Daly-Price, heritageunited.caReligion & Spirituality
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Moment of Clarity With Rev. Lorrie Daly-Price episodes

  • I Have Many Things To Say To You

    June 16, 2019 | This week our focus is on text from John’s Gospel. Here John speaks about how Jesus’ message is continued through the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus reflecting his message and values. The Holy Spirit’s gifts are not found primarily in speaking in tongues and Pentecostal drama like we heard last week but in living in the way of Jesus. The question is how do we do that? How do we live in the way that Jesus lived? The answer to that comes in our welcoming, embracing, healing and nurturing presence to one another, the community and world around us. By living this way Jesus’ Spirit joins us with all creation, building bridges with diversity, inspiring us to creativity and mediating divine healing.  I am certain that it requires a bit of patient listening on our part — but the inner voice of God’s Spirit is always there for us.

    18 min
  • God Communicates a Message of Love

    June 9, 2019 | This Sunday we celebrate Pentecost. This is a day of celebration that a lot of people call the birthday of the church. It's the day the people heard the good news of Jesus' message: God's love for everyone – in the language they needed to hear. The language of their home lands.

    We could ask ourselves what languages do we need to speak so that everyone can hear? The language of twitter and text; the language of technology and economics and science and of education. So many languages so many ways to speak the gospel. How do we translate the message of Pentecost? Could it be simply this?

    God is with you. God loves you. God is there for you when you think you are alone. God’s Spirit comes at the most unexpected times with courage and strength when you think there is none.

    15 min
  • Where Did Jesus Go?
    June 2, 2019 | This Sunday is also referred to as Environment Sunday. A chance to pause for a moment and reflect on the awesome world that God has given us to take care of especially seeing all the new growth beginning to sprout up around us.
    For seeds are a miracle of life and a sign of what is possible. They speak to the abundance that God intends for creation. The seeds we sow in gardens and fields are meant for blessing. The seeds we sow in our acts of compassion, healing, peace-making and justice-seeking, small as they seem, are also meant to bless.
    The seeds we sow are intended to produce a harvest far beyond the tiny seed we start with. Take some time today to reflect on the seeds that you sow and the impact those seeds have.
    18 min
  • Gifts From God
    May 26, 2019 | In the letter to the Ephesians we are assured that when we speak the truth in love we will be the mature body of Christ in the world. We are reminded that when we work together we are able to make a positive impact in the world. As the author of the letter says “Joined and held together by every supporting ligament the body of Christ will grow and build itself up in love as each part does its work.”
    This is one of the goals of our new Regional Council, Shining Waters. We are invited to think about what are the things we can do together that we can’t do alone. It’s a good question for everyday life too. When we work as a team, when we collaborate using all of our gifts and strengths and talents and ideas – we can do amazing things to create a kind and caring world, a place that reflects Jesus’ teachings of how the Kingdom of God here on earth comes when the power that reigns is love.
    18 min
  • God Is Love
    May 19, 2019 | It's odd that God has chosen the name of Love.
    In the beginning God made and named everything.
    Maybe it is only a human name we ascribe to God.
    Maybe we imposed it on God without permission.
    Did God choose it or did humans?
    St. John flatly says GOD IS LOVE.
    So many kinds of love...family love, parental love, neighbourly love, passionate love. close friendship love.
    God's Love encompasses ALL Love. John’s scripture tells us that Jesus said; ”Love one another as I have loved you."
    Dianne Smith
    10 min
  • Do You Hear the Voice of Love
    May 12, 2019 | This weeks reading is from the Gospel of John. It comes with a question at the heart of it, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you really are the Messiah then just tell us plainly.”
    The setting of this scene is said to be in late December in Jerusalem. Jesus is walking around in the portico of Solomon, an old and admired part of the Temple. As usual, Jesus is drawing a crowd. This time the people that are gathered around him are devout Jewish people who have come to celebrate the Feast of the Dedication (better know to us as Hanukkah.)
    No doubt they have heard some crazy rumours or listened in on Jesus’ puzzling sermons or witnessed one of his mind-boggling miracles. They are certainly not unfamiliar with this teacher from Nazareth. So, the question they ask: “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah tell us plainly.”
    I wonder how Jesus will respond.
    18 min
  • Transforming Encounters
    May 5, 2019 | If we were to really stop and think about it, sometimes this whole faith journey can seem a little strange and fantastic. Rational, logical sense making can leave us with nothing more than empty nets. It’s only when we are willing to cast our nets the way Jesus compels us to that we come up with a net full of flopping, silver, slippery faith.
    This week we meet the disciples out doing what they knew best, trying to catch fish. Yet, when Jesus comes along they do not recognize him at first. Could it be that their faith had been tested and they were uncomfortable with the places and situations they were now being called to?
    In the reading we hear from Acts, Ananias is called by God to go to a man who was a known murderer of those who followed Jesus. It surely didn’t make sense for Ananias to cast his faith nets on that side of life’s boat, but he did follow God’s instructions, and he fished out one of the greatest disciples and leaders of all time – Saul of Tarsus who would become the Apostle Paul.
    So, instead of standing around waiting and wondering could it be that we are to take our cue from Peter and go fishing? Drop a net in and let Jesus guide our hands and our hearts.
    17 min
  • No Doubt About It
    This week we hear the story of Thomas from John’s gospel. This has always been one of my favourites. Of course, it’s not just a story about Thomas. It’s also a story about frightened disciples. So scared, in fact, that they hid behind locked doors. And who can blame them? They had just witnessed the one they confessed to be the Messiah betrayed by one of his own, tried and convicted by both religious and civil authorities  and then brutally executed. Little wonder they were afraid, assuming that the next step would be to round up Jesus’ followers. But when Jesus comes on the scene, their fear falls away and is replaced by joy.
    This, I think, is the way we assume faith should work. Yes, perhaps you’ve got doubts and questions and fears, but then God arrives and those all fall away, replaced by joy and wonder and, of course, unshakeable faith.
    But that’s not the way it works with Thomas. He doubts. He questions. He disbelieves. He’s not satisfied with second-hand reports and wants to see for himself. And again I would say, who can blame him? He was, after all, one of those who saw his Lord and friend mistreated, beaten and then crucified and has probably spent the last few days pulling the broken pieces of his life back together and trying to figure out what to do next.
    Thomas finally comes to faith when he first has the chance to voice his doubt and questions and then experiences Jesus for himself. Perhaps the opportunity before us this week is provide the same opportunities for the many Thomases in our world today.
    18 min
  • Joy Comes in the Morning
    April 21, 2019 | This is the day that God has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it! This is the heart of the Easter proclamation – God has made this new day, this wonderful life-giving day and rejoicing is the only appropriate response. God’s doing a new thing, the divine creativity brings forth new life with every new day, and that creates life where death appeared triumphant. It may seem like a “idle tale” to skeptics but to those who have experienced resurrection this “tale” witnesses to life bursting forth in the face of death.
    It seems Peter believes the women enough that he must check the tomb out for himself. What must have been going through his head and his heart as he got closer?
    I imagine his heart was pounding with hope, regret, grief and fear as he ran to the tomb. Perhaps that is why he, unlike the women, didn’t go in - he just stooped and looked in. Perhaps it was now light enough to not need to go in order to see. Perhaps by Jewish custom he was avoiding the uncleanness of the place of the dead.
    Whatever the reason, stooping and seeing was enough. He saw the linen cloths by themselvesand for him that was enough. Maybe he thought anyone stealing the body wouldn’t have goneto the trouble of taking off the clothes and leaving them behind. Whatever he saw and whateverreasoning he used - he went home amazed at what had happened.
    15 min

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