Feb 2011 Comment new and improved

The Comment February 2011 e 115 Issu Pastor’s Message Adam’s Garden Please help us cultivate greater understanding and cooperation Dear Eastgaters, Peace and Joy be with you all. in our universe. Tend "Adam's Garden" on February 6th (3:30 The light of God came to a place called Bethlehem many to 6:00 pm) at our new location: centuries ago. We sing about it every Christmas season. St Peter's United Methodist Now we are in the season after Epiphany, that time in the Church, 17222 NE 8th Street, Bellevue. church when we celebrate the sharing of the light of God in wider and wider circles. Just as the daylight of each "Tending Adam's Garden" is a progressing day of February and March increases in our part of the globe, so monthly interfaith dialogue that we in the church can be mindful of how God’s love and light are spreading focuses on sacred teachings throughout the world. The prophet Isaiah remarked upon this phenomenon about what it means to be a complete and fulfilled human when he said, “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the being, and a responsible member everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. God does not faint or of the human family. "Adam" is grow weary . . . God gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless . . a metaphor symbolic of every . those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up one having free will. Humanity with ...