Harvest

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Don’t you have saying,

it’s still four months until harvest?

Open your eyes

and look at the fields!

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He left Judah

and went back once more to Galilee

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It was about noon

A Samaritan woman came to draw water

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The well is deep

Where can you get this living water?

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Give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty

and have to keep coming here to draw water

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Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain

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Woman, Jesus replied, God is spirit

His worshippers must worship in the Spirit and in truth

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and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east 

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and then led me through water that was ankle-deep

and led me through water that was knee-deep

and led me through water that was up to the waist

but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep

enough to swim in – a river that no one could cross

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The message of light

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There he was transfigured before them.

His face

shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white

as the light.

The light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed

in the face of Christ.

And we all, who with unveiled faces reflect the Lord’s glory,

are being transformed into his image with ever increasing glory,

which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin

looked intently at Stephen,

and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

Look, he said, I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing

at the right hand of God.

For my eyes have seen your salvation,

which you have prepared in the sight of all nations,

a light for revelation to the Gentiles,

and the glory of your people Israel.

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[Acts 26:23; Matt 17:2; 2 Cor 4:6; 2 Cor 3:18;

Acts 6:15; Acts 7:56; Luke 2:30-32, NIV]

A night to be remembered

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During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said,

“Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites!”

The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. 

There were about six hundred thousand men on foot,

besides women and children.

On this night, all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honour the Lord 

for the generations to come.

After leaving Sukkoth they camped at Etham on the edge of the desert. 

By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud 

to guide them on their way,

and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light

so that they could travel by day or night.

Neither the pillar of cloud by day

nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.

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This night is for the Lord, to be remembered by all the people of Israel for all time.

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Remembering Afghan refugees, forced out of Islamabad, and some out of Pakistan.