ST. PETER’S PARISH, FERNANDINA

MINUTES - NOVEMBER VESTRY MEETING
St. Peter’s Church - November 14, 2005

Fr. George Young opened the meeting with prayer at 6:00 p.m. Present: The Rev. Lisa Flores, Toby Atkinson, Jeri Kolke, Lynn Grant, Cheryl Smith, Bert Jenkins, Bill Dickson, Gary Bong, Early McCall, Ben Stephens, Vann Simmons, John Dyal, and Treasurer Jim Carpenter. Absent: Ginger Mock.

Also present were Joe Crim and newly selected Vestry members: Cathy Kaltenbach, Neil Blalock, Neil Frink, and Francis Flood.

Following Toby Atkinson’s “centering” meditation, Cheryl Smith shared some highlights from her spriritual development, affiliations and aspirations.

NEXT MEETING: December 5, 2005 @ 6 pm, a shortened meeting followed by Advent celebration @ the home of Jay & Ginger Mock.
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Dear fellow followers of Jesus,

In an article in the book, The Diversity of Centering Prayer, Thomas Keating writes,

St. Teresa of Avila once wrote that all difficulties in prayer come from one single flaw: praying as if God were absent. Many of our difficulties in daily life are probably the result of living as if God were absent (p. 16).

So, what do you think – do you pray and/or live – as if God were absent? We good, upstanding religious people would never say that God is absent, would we? So maybe another way to think of this is that possibly we pray and/or live as if God were far away (as opposed to being close).
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