We often navigate a crowded world trapped in self-absorbed bubbles, assuming the worst when inconvenienced by others. Through the lens of a tense encounter on St. Augustine’s busy St. George Street, this sermon explores how quickly anger can turn to something else entirely when we fail to see the humanity around us. Join us to explore how to move beyond entitlement and truly see one another.
“I want to instill in my children, and what’s more, I want to instill in myself, the sense of vocation as endeavoring to get to the other side of impossible, where “impossible” simply falls away. All the challenges, all the obstacles – they are not blocking the path. They are the path…”
How I experience my situation in life is often shaped by my beliefs about my self and my world. How many of us are living by underlying assumptions that interfere with our health, happiness or growth? Can seemingly “miraculous” cures show us how to overthrow these “governing assumptions,” to embrace new possibilities and even transform our lives?
Coca-Cola famously contains a secret ingredient known as Merchandise 7X. The only copy of the formula is locked in a safe in Atlanta, Georgia. In this sermon, Elizabeth DeCoux describes a different secret ingredient: one which has the power to transform the relationship between humans and animals.
