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Slept literally almost all of to-day, except I did go to church; and Daphne preached a really beautiful sermon that I didn't expect. Our reading to-day was the one about David, how David's all "I've got a house of cedar and the Ark of the Covenant is in a tent! We've got to build a sort of palace thing for it!" and Nathan's all, "Sounds like a good idea to me!" and then God says, "No, look, if I'd wanted a house of cedar I would have asked for one: I want you to be the one with a proper house. As for me, I've travelled with the Israelites all over the place in this tent and tabernacle, and I'm perfectly well honoured to keep on doing the same thing, ready to move on with my people whenever it's time to move on." (And then our New Testament reading was from one of the letters to the Ephesians, all about how there's considerable mistrust between Jews and gentiles but under Christ the idea of stranger can be broken down, because cultural differences cede to this brotherhood in Christ and we should help each other and build up each other's churches and cities and embrace the connexion we've discovered (then-Jews/early-Christians, not present day Jews, since obvs. present day Jews don't have the whole Jesus is the Christ thing going on).)
Anyway, Daphne's sermon was all about how these days we put so much importance on our churches, and it's all right to do that, but we have to remember that if all our churches were taken away from us we would still have God, because we are the tabernacles, we are the tents, and God is within all of us being carried around by us whenever we go somewhere; that we are never without God in our travels, we are like the Israelites, and we will always be the best and most holy home for God; that we should honour each other and take care of ourselves because of that. She touched on the Ephesians with that, and even worked in the Gospel reading about the crowds travelling after Jesus.
I ended up being really glad I went, even though I was barely conscious. As soon as we got home, though, I went back to bed and slept to about five-thirty, which is kind of awful. But then I cleaned the bathroom, so that was moderately productive.
skaryma.Slept literally almost all of to-day, except I did go to church; and Daphne preached a really beautiful sermon that I didn't expect. Our reading to-day was the one about David, how David's all "I've got a house of cedar and the Ark of the Covenant is in a tent! We've got to build a sort of palace thing for it!" and Nathan's all, "Sounds like a good idea to me!" and then God says, "No, look, if I'd wanted a house of cedar I would have asked for one: I want you to be the one with a proper house. As for me, I've travelled with the Israelites all over the place in this tent and tabernacle, and I'm perfectly well honoured to keep on doing the same thing, ready to move on with my people whenever it's time to move on." (And then our New Testament reading was from one of the letters to the Ephesians, all about how there's considerable mistrust between Jews and gentiles but under Christ the idea of stranger can be broken down, because cultural differences cede to this brotherhood in Christ and we should help each other and build up each other's churches and cities and embrace the connexion we've discovered (then-Jews/early-Christians, not present day Jews, since obvs. present day Jews don't have the whole Jesus is the Christ thing going on).)
Anyway, Daphne's sermon was all about how these days we put so much importance on our churches, and it's all right to do that, but we have to remember that if all our churches were taken away from us we would still have God, because we are the tabernacles, we are the tents, and God is within all of us being carried around by us whenever we go somewhere; that we are never without God in our travels, we are like the Israelites, and we will always be the best and most holy home for God; that we should honour each other and take care of ourselves because of that. She touched on the Ephesians with that, and even worked in the Gospel reading about the crowds travelling after Jesus.
I ended up being really glad I went, even though I was barely conscious. As soon as we got home, though, I went back to bed and slept to about five-thirty, which is kind of awful. But then I cleaned the bathroom, so that was moderately productive.
