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Subject: Re: May 13 Devotion
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:01:05 -0700
From: Pastor Dawn Teuthorn <pastordawn@saintjudes.org>
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From: Pastor Dawn Teuthorn <pastordawn@saintjudes.org>
Subject: Re: May 13 Devotion
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:01:05 -0700
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Thanks David.

A powerful message/....Word!

Dawn
On May 13, 2008, at 12:15 AM, David Bonde wrote:

>
> =93Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness=94 (2
> Corinthians 3:12)
>
> I volunteered for the devotion on the 13th of each month because I
> figured I had a better chance of remembering it.  The 13th was Anna=92s
> =93special day.=94  Anna was born on the 13th of May and while we never
> suggested that the monthly anniversary of your birth had any special
> meaning, Anna was certain it did.
>
> There was a remarkable certainty in Anna.  It was more than just
> confidence and not at all an egotism, just a conviction that the heart
> of the universe was good.  So a day that other=92s treated with
> superstition, she boldly claimed as her own.  If it was Friday the
> 13th, all the better.
>
> When the girls and I were searching for a house to rent when we had to
> move from the city into the Livonia school system in the Detroit
> suburbs (they were then about 9 and 7), we looked at one that backed
> up against an old cemetery.  Anna was disappointed we didn=92t get that
> one.  She knew the cemetery would freak her friends, but she thought
> it was a place to play.  We are, after all, children of the
> resurrection.
>
> She had lived in Detroit long enough to know the truth about the
> tragedies and sorrows of life.  One day when she was about 6,
> reflecting on the song =93There is a Balm in Gilead=94, she asked why
> there was no balm for Detroit.  She was not na=EFve about life, she just
> =93believed more boldly still.=94
>
> I confess that at this point in life I feel more like Jacob limping
> than Anna=92s confidence that you could play in the cemetery.  But when
> I think of what children of the resurrection should look like, I think
> of her.
>
> Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and bold; have no fear or dread of them,
> because it is the LORD your God who goes with you; he will not fail
> you or forsake you."  (Spoken by Moses to the people as they stood at
> the edge of the Promised Land.)
>
> Acts 4:29 And now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your
> servants to speak your word with all boldness =85 31 When they had
> prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken; and
> they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God
> with boldness.  (The prayer of the followers of Jesus when they were
> threatened =93not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.=94)
>
> >
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