{"id":138,"date":"2014-03-09T06:57:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T20:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=138"},"modified":"2014-03-09T06:57:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T20:57:28","slug":"finding-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Finding Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday evening just before I went home I saw Jesus.\u00a0 He was standing by the gate at the back of the church that opens into our atrium fernery.<\/p>\n

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I really didn\u2019t know what to do.\u00a0 Who has left him out there?\u00a0 Who knows about him?\u00a0 I had to rush and get ready for the Ash Wednesday service but he has been on my mind ever since.\u00a0 It looks to me as if someone thought he might find a home in our beautiful fernery Memorial Garden. When I came to church Friday morning I brought him in.\u00a0 He was caught up in cobwebs and bits of grass and leaves, so he must have been standing waiting for some time.\u00a0 He is a bit battered, but it would be easy to touch up his paintwork.\u00a0 I popped him by a column at the back of the fernery and he is looking much more comfortable there.<\/p>\n

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He is a very Catholic looking Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0 I think I will take him along with me to the minister\u2019s meeting Tuesday week just in case anyone has pilfered him from another place.\u00a0 And this Tuesday I should bring him up at Parish Council.\u00a0 I guess the point is: \u2018Will this representation of Jesus add to or distract from the worship of the people who use the Memorial Garden for prayer?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We certainly can\u2019t just leave him standing by himself at the back gate forever.\u00a0 If he isn\u2019t welcome in the fernery, I can always take him home to the rectory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday evening just before I went home I saw Jesus.\u00a0 He was standing by the gate at the back of the church that opens into our atrium fernery.<\/p>\n

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