John 13. 31-35: A new commandment: love one another.<\/p>\n
Jesus was talking to his disciples and trying to instill upon them that they should love others as he loved them,\u00a0 It is hard to love everybody, there are those who are unfair, unkind, hurtful and just plain mean to you. How can you possibly love them?<\/p>\n
God\u00a0 doesn\u2019t differentiate but sees all of Creation as good and equips us to lift up all of creation, Do you see yourself as equipped?<\/p>\n
There is tension in the air when Jesus gave this teaching to the disciples. The end of his life is near and so Jesus works to prepare them, give them life tools so they can continue their role as disciples.<\/p>\n
When we look out into our world and see the strife, wars, poverty, homelessness, people starving, all the horrors that happen in the world. Do you ask yourself, Where is love?, How can God let this happen? God gave us a free choice, and it is not Him who causes our problems but ourselves. We are the ones who can make good things happen when we love each other. We care for each other and we don\u2019t let the evil of the world take over. If we love one another as we love our God and ourselves; how can we possibly hurt others? Take time to share the love you have in your heart with someone. It will not make you sad, it will give you joy. Jesus loved right to his dying breath when he asked God to forgive those who crucified him.<\/p>\n
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Creation Connection:<\/strong><\/p>\n In the Psalms, Creation has human qualities. It is in the nature of Creation to praise the Creator, but we humans often get in the way. We are fast moulding a world based only on\u00a0 the principle of Creation\u2019s usefulness for humans. How do we promote practices that once again let Creation praise God and allow nature to have its own agency and identity?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sunday May 24.\u00a0 Sixth Sunday of Easter<\/strong><\/p>\n Scriptures: Acts 16:9-15 Paul worships with Lydia and the women by the river<\/em><\/p>\n John 14: 23-29 The Holy Spirit will come to teach.<\/em><\/p>\n John 5:1-9\u00a0 A sick man cured at the pool of Bethesda.<\/em><\/p>\n Lay Leader: Lorna\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reader: Kaireen<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Announcements:<\/strong><\/p>\n UCW, will meet on Monday, June 2 at Kaireen\u2019s cottage for a potluck supper and\u00a0 \u201cNot So Silent\u201d auction. We will meet at the church at 6:15 to carpool. All women are invited to attend.<\/p>\n Prayer Shawl group will meet on Saturday, May 24, at\u00a0 3 pm in the Family Room at the church. All knitters and crocheters are welcome. Supplies are available if needed.<\/p>\n Reminder:<\/strong> there will be no services at First United during July and August.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n May 21 \u2013 National Tea Day<\/p>\n May 23 \u2013 World Turtle Day<\/p>\n June\u00a0 – National Indigenous History Month<\/p>\n June \u2013 Launch of Pride Season<\/p>\n June 3 \u2013 World Bicycle Day<\/p>\n June 4 \u2013 International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression<\/p>\n June 5 \u2013 World Environment Day<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John 13. 31-35: A new commandment: love one another. Jesus was talking to his disciples and trying to instill upon them that they should love others as he loved them,\u00a0 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":4914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 19:05:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73974,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73973\/revisions\/73974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}