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Hello Reader!

Hello beloved one.

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Announcements:

*Summer Planning: This summer, we'd like to have some whole church fun times. Did you Northern Colorado brims with neat activities, live music, and opportunities to gather and let the kids run free? Commonplace would like to descend upon the following events, so please mark your calendars:

>>>June 25th, CSU Lagoon Concert Series ("That Eighties Band")

>>>July 15th, City Park Food Truck Rally

>>>August 7th, Windsor Lake Concert Series ("Delta Sonics")

*Family Housing Network is in the building now! Please sign up to help (bring dinner, childcare, host) these families. Thank you to those of you who have already done so!!

*ALSO, this Wednesday evening is our turn to serve dinner at the Fort Collins Rescue Mission. Interested in helping? You can sign up here.

*Please drop by Office Hours (i.e. casual hangout time) on Thursday morning anytime between 10 to 12 at The Neighbor (144 S Mason)!

*After Hours (i.e. more casual hangout time) will be at The Neighbor (144 S Mason) on the evening of May 28th from 5:30 to 7:30.

*No Centering Prayer gathering on May 26th...it's Memorial Day!

*CP Youth is going to Noah's Ark this summer! Check out the flyer below! Tell your teen to come and invite their friends. Questions? Reach out to Katrina, katrina@thecommonplacechurch.com Also, we will be have a special offering on Sunday to fundraise for this trip! Anything helps!

Make Known

We usually follow the Revised Common Lectionary. Click on the link if you want to see what we'll be exploring in the weeks to come.

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I N V O C A T I O N

God of comfort and compassion,

through Jesus, your Son, you lead us

to the water of life and table of your bounty.

May we who have received

the tender love of our Good Shepherd

be strengthened by your grace

to care for your flock.

Amen.

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S O N G S

Free Gungor PREVIEW   ​

God Will Heal Our Wounds - L... Common Hymnal, Aaron Strumpe... PREVIEW   ​

Where I Want To Go Roo Panes PREVIEW   ​

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S C R I P T U R E & R E A D I N G S

​John 13:31-35​

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T A K E A W A Y S & Q U E S T I O N S

*Jesus said in the text from John chapter 13 (and a bunch of other places) that he was/is/will be “glorified” in God/the Father and that God/the Father was/is/will be “glorified” in Jesus/the Son. Jesus promises all that glory would make its way into Jesus’s followers too. Why glorified? How glorified? What even is glorified??

*Do you want a taste of the glory? See what it tastes like??

Glory is a pretty abstract concept in this context. When I think of glory, I think of success, celebrity, and the like. Glory comes from the Greek word “doxazo” which primarily means holding something or someone in your mind or imagination. It could just as easily be translated, “recognized” or “known”

*When Jesus spoke of “the son of man” pretty much all preachers and scholars agree Jesus is talking about himself I. The 3rd person. With that in mind — and turning to the idea of doxazo as “holding someone in one’s mind” and “recognizing or making them known,” we could read Jesus’s words like this:

Now I am made known

And God is made known in me

If God is made known in me

He will make me known in himself

And will make me known at once

*God was/is known in Jesus — the words, the actions — and Jesus celebrates being known in God/the father. It’s flowing to and fro’ — this being, this knowing, this holding. And it manifests in “loving them to the end” (John 13:1-3).

*When we know and are known, we make known. When you really love someone you want to “make them known,” and when someone really loves you they just can’t help but make you know . Love just keeps moving in and out and around and round. So much of what and who I know and love is because another person who I loved mad it/them known to me. We can’t help glorifying what we love. We say, “you gotta hear this; you have to meet my friend; oh just wait until you taste it!”

*Who is someone you love because someone you already love made them known (glorified)?

*Who is someone who loves you because someone they love made you known?

*And in this kind of holding and knowing and glorifying, we see this almost confusing and beautiful movement of in-ness:

Jesus in God and God in Jesus and us in them and them in us and Mary in Eric and Eric in Mary and Mary and Eric in us — being made known — and round and round the love and being known goes…to the very end. Amen.

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A R T W O R K

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B E N E D I C T I O N

You are God’s Child

Gifted with dreams and visions.

Upon you rests the grace of God like flames of fire.

Love and serve the Lord in the wildness of your being.

Practice Resurrection.

And may the deep peace of Christ be with you,

The strong arms of God sustain you,

And the glory of the Holy Spirit shine upon your face.

Amen.

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Resource: Michelle Torigian For communion, we looked to the words of Reverend Michelle Torigian. Her reflections center us within this sacred story of Christ. When we see our lives this way, Christ can appear anytime anywhere. What kinds of actions will that bring forth? ​ click here to read her thoughts

Practice: First Prayers This week, how about returning to some of the very first prayers you ever prayed. First, think through what they even were. Think back: what were some of your first interactions with God. Did it feel sweet? obligatory? weird? meaningful? Whatever it was, make room for these memories. And then, reflect on what, possibly, were some of the words you used during that time. Maybe it was "I'm scared" or "Help me". Knowing that you've likely changed since that time in your faith life, how can you integrate your initial prayers into your prayer life now? How can you use these words as a sort of "coming home"?

Grace and Peace,

Katrina

&

Darren

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