breaking the chains of tradition

with a heart open to change
to the submission to God’s calling
breaking the chains of tradition
of the way it has always been
hope in that bright morning
as spring after the snow
comfort in God’s protection
wherever we may go


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October 10, 2012
opening prayer of Church Council
meditation on poem,
“For a New Beginning”,
http://www.panhala.net/Archive/For_a_New_Beginning.html
by John O'Donohue
by Pastor Ruth Foss
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Suncook, NH
October 9, 2012


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