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Freedom Means

Robert Metivier — Tue, 26 May 2020 15:04:00 +0000

As Ned Hatch and Robert Ratte so cleverly present here, there is a new revolution of freedom. Freedom with responsibility for others: the weak, the vulnerable, the elderly.

Sometimes a small inconvenience in the limits of your personal freedom can make a life and death difference to others.

Check out their video:

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Gabriel’s Message

Robert Metivier — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:02:38 +0000

Today, on the Catholic-Christian Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the coming of the Archangel Gabriel to Mary, the Mother of Jesus is the featured Gospel reading. This traditional reading continues the sense of Heaven impacting Earth, Eternity breaking into the experience of the Present in this world.

For those in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Gabriel is no mere quaint, placid spiritual being, but a powerful Messenger who blows a horn to proclaim the coming of the Lord.

As Heaven further unveils Itself, the glorious fanfare expands and envelopes the moment and all of time.

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An Ambient Advent

Robert Metivier — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:53:09 +0000

Listen in with us this Advent:

Celebrate New Beginnings with Us this Holy Season!

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Follow Me!

Robert Metivier — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 13:42:33 +0000

Following can be a good thing. Leading can be even better! It all depends on what you are doing and whether you are going somewhere important.

We hear a lot about Christians these days not living up to their faith. It seems that the worst of us are defining the rest of us.

But it was really pretty simple in the beginning. He said, “Follow me.”

The question is, do we do that? How can we lead if we have not learned to follow?

We still have something important to do. Maybe we start with actually following….

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Let’s Celebrates Us!

Robert Metivier — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 15:30:30 +0000

Please post your favorite family Easter pics with us here!

Let’s Celebrate You and Us! The core meaning of Spring is to Celebrate Life. The core message of Easter is to Celebrate an Eternal Life of Victory!

And that includes celebrating you and us, exactly as we are. Today you will post a lot of pictures because it is a day of babies, children and joy! Please post your favorite one here, so we can Celebrate You!

Here is a free song for you as an Easter Gift: A Song of Celebration!

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“You’re too Sensitive?”

Robert Metivier — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:38:09 +0000

Do you enjoy a sunset over the water?

How does it make you feel? Is it OK to be in touch with your feelings?

… timely exposure, in moderation, to all that is good, beautiful and true only makes for healthy sensitivity and appreciation and respect. It is one of the characteristics of true maturity in men as well as in women.

Baars, Conrad W.. Feeling and Healing Your Emotions

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See With New Eyes

Robert Metivier — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:48:35 +0000

My perspective matters to me. Your perspective is what’s important to you.

And, try as we might, we each really do see things through our own lenses.

Sometimes we canot agree because we really are just seeing different things.

Here are my glasses. Can you give me yours?

Maybe we can see with new eyes!

Photo by Josh Calabrese on Unsplash

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I Have a Dream

Robert Metivier — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:33:24 +0000

I have a dream …….

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” –
A short excerpt from the Speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King at the “March on Washington.” – 1963 (now 55 years ago)

There will be much written and said today about peace, ending racism, inequality in the workplace, and minority civil rights.

We just want to ask one question:

“Are we able to sit together at the same table of brotherhood yet?”

How we answer that question tells us where we are in accomplishing the dream of Martin Luther King and all people who yearn for the continuing pursuit of being human with one another

Who will you invite to the table?

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How Committed Are We to What We Believe?

Robert Metivier — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 18:18:43 +0000

Do we ever question what we REALLY believe?

Obviously there was no REAL drummer boy in the sense that he was a factual person. He is an imaginary character in a Czech carol of unidentified origin.

BUT is this drummer boy still not somehow REAL, a real part of each of us that share the enthusiasm and exuberance of his message?

How committed are we to our message and to our hope in things not only greater but also beyond ourselves?

Infused with what we truly believe, with power and energy and limitless enthusiasm!

Take this newer rendition in and and just maybe we can find time to think about these things during our Holiday break.

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We Should Still Listen to MLK!!!

smetivier8 — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 21:13:41 +0000

“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.” — Martin Luther King, Jr, Nobel Lecture

Peace is a living thing that requires affirmation just as much as we humans do. It cannot flourish without it.

Unfortunately, many of us humans go far too long without the affirmation that we need. Many of the unaffirmed look to replace this necessity with self-affirming things like money, power, and fame.

And those are the types of people that are running our world presently. Which brings us back to the affirming of peace.

It’s not enough to be anti-war, we have to be pro-peace. We have to breathe the affirmation into the organism that is peace in order for it to live…and THRIVE!!

And if that means acting like it is 1964 again when Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize and led a revolution, then so be it! It’ll be a good version of going back in time as opposed to the one we are currently witnessing.

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