Meeting Jesus Again For The First Time

• how easy it is to get bogged down with doing the right thing and thereby forget to show the compassion that comes from listening to others "from the heart"
• remembering that words attributed to Jesus are not verbatim – they were so profound and helpful that they were repeatedly passed on until they were eventually written down
• our experience of death and how blessed it is to "mourn", if we can. In our culture we don't talk about death very much, least of all with our family.
• what it means to have a relationship with Jesus and how our views of God compare with those of the Old Testament
• how Jesus connection with the Spirit was at the source of everything he did, and Jesus wanted that to be the same for us.
• that we all have gifts, and all gifts are for the common good.

Karen Crussell