790 Washington Street, P. O. Box 284, Stoughton, Massachusetts 02072
(781) 344-6800
Church School: 10:45 AM
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Parish Universalist Church 790 Washington Street, P. O. Box 284, Stoughton, Massachusetts 02072 (781) 344-6800 |
Worship:
10:30 AM Church School: 10:45 AM |
The dance of joy and pain |
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Rev. Jeffrey Symynkywicz, November 6, 2011
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Joy and pain lie close within our hearts, cradled in the arms of everlasting life. Where we see darkness, God’s light shines just beyond, immutable, unchanging, as the holy darkness of creation is impenetrable to garish human daylight. We are a unity of forces complementary and completing, a sacred consummation of light and dark. We call them opposites, but life knows that they do not oppose, but realize; and each holds the germ of the other within its living essence. So, if we have a choice, we usually choose the sugar-coated pill of happy, easy times; but our deeper nature knows we ought not run from the pain (though only a fool steers directly into it). Let us cling to the precipice of our love emboldened brothers and sisters of all the world, divine children both of dark and light, both of joy and of pain. jbs 5/29/03 1/30/05 11/6/11 |
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