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HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday Octobers 1990 Page 17 Clergy comment Religion- Be passionately grateful Presbyterian Johnnie s mother had told him at least twenty times before he left not to forget to say thank you to mother for inviting him to her party When Johnny arrived him it was the first question she asked Did you remember the say thank you Well I remembered but I didn thank her But I told you and told you bow important it is to thank people why t you say thank you to Suesie smother I was going to I remembered and everything but well the boy in front of me going out of the door said thank you and Suesie mom said Oh don mention it so I In our North American culture the land of plenty with plenty of land we consider thanksgiving is part of our good manners Oh I think when all is said and done we rt sincerely grateful that we don t havL housemaids knees that the I didn get in again that the summer was great and the corn is high Hut somehow it s just all too polite Like that what we re supposed to do it s all so civil isn t it Kind of like deodorant and lining up at the bus stop Saying thank you is like saying excuse me it very pro per and decent We automatically think that someone who says thank you is well behaved well mannered well bred well something What we ve lost sight of is the deep spiritual significance of thanks of having a truly thankful Have you ever tried to want for something and give thanks for something else at the same time It can be done While you re being your conscience is freed from all selfishness Free think about that In times of thanksgiving we are truly selfless we lose sight of ourselves and our attention is centered on the object of our thanksgiving or the giver of it Although this in itself is a highly spiritual state to achieve there is an even higher level of spiritual freedom that can be achieved by the giving of thanks I his next step comes through a true passion of gratefulness and expresses itself in social action be so conscious of how blessed we truly are thit we are driven to help those who are less fortunate than ourselves Not out of obligation or because it s Thanksgiving and that s what our society finds accep table or even encourages But through the joy of the realization of how rich we are from a grateful spirit comes the to do to for others enter into the hurting of a hungry world enter into the hurting of our lonely neighbors the hurting of ill treated children the sick and the elderly It is my prayer this Thanksgiving that we are not just politely thankful but that we may be pas grateful Not just to give thanks but to do thanks Be thankful for young people me introduce msclf My name is Jim Ryan I m married audi live in Georgetown I will be writing a weekly column in The Herald on the Gospel for that week found in the Common I try This column will consider and social issues lion the way making reference to film and fiction is well as ideas from the social sciences is I have hi a f inn in nursing mis in a mental hospital in scho ls 1 ive studied the logy literature I am Catholic I for liber il audi cute churchgoers and I would any comments and suggestion is well as news lit ms til it you might pass along Sunday in Ordinary Turn Matt It 1 Children of the Corn Reap What The first is a popular book film of the horror genre the se is a proverb ST MI- NTS It I 1 Young people know little about agriculture Is there relation between McNuggets and chicken They know less agricultural imagery like reap sow harvest Young people like horror films and books Andrews and Stephen King are the minors who are carried around passed from hand to people ire very moral ONI- I North Americans cat three pounds of corn da It may not be in Iht form of corn on the cob It in the beef we eat the milk we drink he pi card board containers thit pickage our beef and milk ON Why did Stephen King combine corn harvest imagery with the hnr ror genre in Children of the ANSWFH If the seed is bad or the sower is ambivalent the harvest even if plentiful can be evil lomorrow Gospel reading combines a reap what sow ethic with treachen It is lime and the 1 expects his ire of the harvest What he receives however is a ror His servants and his son are killed 1 irgirit Much Depends on Dinner oronto IJfff p Unusual but isn am more unusual th in life Why do young people like horror stones ind films Because Ihej ire moral and set the bid seeds sown and evil motivation thai plants them They miy not undersland whit the words Reap what Sow mean they tand the ethics of the statement I be primarily for voting people this year Lei also plant fewer bad seeds this year Christian School celebrates anniversary Georgetown District pined its doors for the first time September when it wis dedicited for service with three staff members ind nmetv nine students Twenty fie years hive pissed since then and the school building has been enlirged three times to the increasing number of students coming from Christian homes in the community he school since it founding has become in terdenominationa with member families representing the Anglican Baptist Presbyterian Pentecost il Lutheran United Canadian Reformed Christian Missionary Alliance and Christian Reformed Churches The school is run by parents through a Board who are elected from and by the membership of the school society in accordance with the directives 1 down in Ihe isic irticks of its celebrate its 25th anniversary God s failhfulness through those official celebntions look place September ind To kick things off a planting ceremony in front of the brand new sign was officiated by the school pnncipal Mrs Treena ind a few of the students The sign was painted by local sign painter Carla and built and put into place by the school volunteer Maintenance Committee an ex imple of how the school benefits from its supporting parents members and community Shrubs and plants were donated Nursery and Landscap ing Friday evening the school welcomed back old friends as well Bible Digest Jesus saith unto him I am the way and the truth and the life no man unto the but by me John 14 6 is in i person His ime is Jesus He is to Heaven Do vou know Him brother Both are in great demand today But we believe it through the grace of the I Jesus Christ we shall be saved even as they Acts IS We are not sived from sin A friend loves it ill times hell by our own deeds We ire i broth r is for adversity saved the and mi rev of Proverbs 17 17 lesus Be i re frund Be i reil gift of salvition is new it i on the me His reminisced I lushed listened in the punted gym which i group of pirenls students and even grind pirenls h id piinled during the summer in preparation for in niversary Carla designed and painted a full sized will depicting the school building il the bottom a nature scene in background representing the world and children representing kindergarten to grade eight in the foreground The school s cor nerstone verse For reverance of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom Psalm HI 10 was painted on the top left corner The mural wis dedicated to the Lord s faithfulness in providing volunteers for its boards tees fundraisers teacher aides etc that have worked together to make the school such a success An Open House was held from one to four the following afternoon A special anniversary book could be purchased is well as mugs Students work from over the years was on display hat Saturdiy evening a talent and fun night was held is board staff students ind friends stnred laughter the past and present It was a terrific evening The weekend wis i of and th for five years God bless the school in the next five Anniversary and friends Bill I ens Webb on their reception wis Id it SI ImUd hurt last fori ind Kill Photo submitted SHOPPING SPREE VALUE STORE LAURA BERRY Wish I May a nan organization which grants wishes Mr Children DOWNTOWN GEORGETOWN 124ManStS 8777654 A CHURCH DIRECTORY NON DENOMINATIONAL PENTECOSTAL TO ADVERTISE ALL PEOPLES CHURCH DELIVERANCE CENTRE 41 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