L This is the gospel of our Risen Lord. P Praise be to you, Lord Jesus Christ. Breath your Spirit into us and grant that we may hear and in hearing be led in the way you want us to go. Many of us here today have had, or still have, many problems in our lives. Something is eating at us.
Stress is a common, all too common fact in our lives.
We are not at peace. Who will rescue me is a cry heard not only on the top 40 charts, but in the depths of our hearts. Again, hoping against hope, some of us turn to religion, we turn to the values and principles taught to us on our mothers knees and we try to live our lives by the ten commandments and by the laws taught to us by Moses, Jesus and Paul. But like Paul - we end up finding that this does not work either, we find that the good that we would like to do we do not do and the bad that we would not do, we end up doing anyway. The way I am referring to will strike many of you as being very silly, very simplistic, very naive, but I assure you that it is not - even when applied to problems that are larger than our own personal ones.