{"id":3647,"date":"2020-11-09T10:05:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T23:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leighmoorunitingchurch.org.au\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2024-12-16T23:48:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T12:48:18","slug":"monday-email-09-11-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leighmoorunitingchurch.org.au\/?p=3647","title":{"rendered":"Monday Email 09-11-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Faith Pals,<\/strong><\/p>\n

We rejoice that some of the Covid-19 restrictions have lifted.\u00a0 It is still uncertain when we will be able to meet for worship on Sundays, but when we are able, we will let everyone know. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Happy Monday!\u00a0 I started writing this now, because I was intending to wash the bed linen but one cat is still asleep on the bed (Janet Soo will understand this dilemma!) so I thought I would send out my email while I wait.\u00a0 I then looked at my Edward Hays, book and on November 8, he lists it as ‘New Soap Day.’!<\/strong><\/p>\n

How appropriate, I thought, as I wait to do a load of laundry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So…let me tell you about new soap day.\u00a0 Apparently back in 1890 a new soap appeared , but no one was interested in it.\u00a0 It had been invented by a German chemist named Krafft.\u00a0 He had discovered if you mixed certain chemicals with alcohol, it made a lather-like soap from fat.\u00a0 Then came World War 1 (and yes, this is another of those inventions due to war).\u00a0 When the Allies blockaded Germany, no one was able to obtain natural fats (used for soap) but two men remembered Krafft’s invention, and produced a German wartime substitute for soap, a synthetic detergent that left no scum.\u00a0 In 1946 this synthetic detergent was manufactured under the name Tide<\/i>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So…soap…as we know it today-born from conflict, tension and the passion to find a wartime soap substitute.\u00a0 Another useful product that has come out of war.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, Edward Hays writes that we can learn a spiritual lesson from detergent (he even suggests that we might put a bottle of detergent next to our Bible, or near where we pray!) The Latin detergere<\/i> means ‘to wipe away.’\u00a0 Hays writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘It is divine to deterge a friend, spouse or stranger’s sin as soon as it happens.\u00a0 Without waiting to be asked to pardon whatever mess the offense might have created, deterge it, wipe it up at once with a love-soaked sponge.\u00a0 Deterging is difficult even when someone asks you to do it, and is really amazing when you do it before being asked.\u00a0 Yet life becomes more harmonious and full of grace the faster you go to work on deterging the spills, spots and stains others make in your life.’<\/strong><\/p>\n

So…soap.\u00a0 Are you going to look at it differently now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Have mercy on me, O God<\/strong><\/p>\n

…blot out my transgressions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,<\/strong><\/p>\n

and cleanse me from my sin,<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Purge me with hyssop, and i<\/strong><\/p>\n

shall be clean;<\/strong><\/p>\n

wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.’<\/strong><\/p>\n

-Psalm 51, vss1, 2, 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.’<\/strong><\/p>\n

-Hebrews 10: 22<\/strong><\/p>\n

News: Jack came through surgery, but there is still a long way to go regarding healing\/recovery.\u00a0 Please keep Elv, Martin, Noy and Jack in your prayers, please.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a big week for Alan and Fredrica: blood tests and appointments today, and chemotherapy on Wednesday.\u00a0 Please keep them in your prayers, as well as Rohini and Jaya, Shirley Edwards, Margaret Wills.\u00a0 Also Lex and Leora.\u00a0 Lex\u00a0 went home on Thursday, and is doing very well, but again, a long road to recovery after open-heart surgery.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Really-put ALL of the church family in your prayers!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plus our military, and those who have served in war.\u00a0 It is Remembrance Day on Wednesday, so let us remember those who were willing to sacrifice their lives for freedom:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

‘On 11 November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent after four years of continuous warfare. With their armies retreating and close to collapse, German leaders signed an Armistice, bringing to an end the First World War. From the summer of 1918, the five divisions of the Australian Corps had been at the forefront of the allied advance to victory. Beginning with their stunning success at the battle of Hamel in July, they helped to turn the tide of the war at Amiens in August, followed by the capture of Mont St Quentin and P\u00e8ronne, and the breaching of German defences at the Hindenburg Line in September. By early October the exhausted Australians were withdrawn from battle. They had achieved a fighting reputation out of proportion to their numbers, but victory had come at a heavy cost. They suffered almost 48,000 casualties during 1918, including more than 12,000 dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the four years of the war more than 330,000 Australians had served overseas, and more than 60,000 of them had died. The social effects of these losses cast a long shadow over the postwar decades.’<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It is also NAIDOC Week; so let us celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.\u00a0 This reflection is from our Synod website:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Always was, Always will be<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Always was<\/strong>
\nAlways will be<\/strong>
\nThe Lands I walk on<\/strong>
\nAnd the Lands that walk within me<\/strong><\/p>\n

To know the history of First Peoples<\/strong>
\nIs to know the importance of place,<\/strong>
\nTo know what being on country is,<\/strong>
\nIs to know and feel the connection<\/strong><\/p>\n

To want to hear the stories and feel the stories is our call to all,<\/strong>
\nTo want to know and hear the Lands<\/strong>
\nas a gift, to our being and knowing,<\/strong>
\nTo know and hear from First Peoples, is how we as First and<\/strong>
\nSecond Peoples are called to the growing<\/strong><\/p>\n

To know the significance and compass that abounds us, as First<\/strong>
\nPeoples through place, is to know our links to the Land surpasses all time and space<\/strong><\/p>\n

But in knowing that connection<\/strong>
\nIs to know and reflect on, dispossession and its true realisation,<\/strong>
\nTo hear the Land relation, is a call to know<\/strong>
\nand reflect on the impacts of invasion and colonisation<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is country, what is milaythina ningee (Mother Earth) in the<\/strong>
\nnow and in the forever time for First Peoples?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stolen lands,<\/strong>
\nAt the colonisers hands,<\/strong>
\nStolen connection,<\/strong>
\nBy forced removals,<\/strong>
\nUnder the myth of protection<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Lutrawita, the 9 Nations of our ancestors lived in harmony with the Land,<\/strong>
\nThe Land is us,<\/strong>
\nAnd we are the Land<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine and reflect on what happens when that is taken away?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Declaration of \u201cThe Black War\u201d here in Tasmanian must be told and must be heard,<\/strong>
\nThe impacts of broken Treaties must be learned<\/strong><\/p>\n

May our Churches and agencies discern,<\/strong>
\nFor it is in Nature\u2019s classroom that we truly learn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Learn the struggle and the survival of a people and place in realisation,<\/strong>
\nHear the cries of our people at the hands of colonisation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reflect on Always was Always will be,<\/strong>
\nNot in words, but in action too<\/strong><\/p>\n

And embrace the message to unlearn and be free,<\/strong>
\nNot just in words but in hearts, souls and spirits too<\/strong>
\nAnd reflect on the privilege of the Land walked on and with:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Know its stories<\/strong>
\nFeel its stories<\/strong>
\nFeel its call<\/strong>
\nAnd feel its heart<\/strong><\/p>\n

Always was<\/strong>
\nAlways will be<\/strong>
\nWithin me<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Land is my compass<\/strong>
\nIt connects me<\/strong><\/p>\n

It connects me to place past present and future too<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s who I am<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s who we are as First Peoples<\/strong><\/p>\n

And in the discerning of justice for Land return,<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s the knowing of the importance of Place,<\/strong>
\nThe healing of Place is the place to Learn<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s in knowing this connection to Land, through this lens of<\/strong>
\ndiscernment the true lessons are learned<\/strong><\/p>\n

Honour the land and the stories sitting within Country wherever you may be,<\/strong><\/p>\n

And be in the knowing and the growing of:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Always Was<\/strong>
\nAlways Will Be<\/strong>
\nAs you gather<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can you hear the stories of place?<\/strong>
\nAnd as you walk and gather and stand?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can you hear the connection in the forever time<\/strong>
\nof First Peoples\u2019 Connection to Land?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walk it<\/strong>
\nFeel it<\/strong>
\nKnow it<\/strong>
\nHear it<\/strong>
\nHonour it<\/strong>
\nSit and be<\/strong><\/p>\n

With what it means to truly honour,<\/strong>
\nThe words \u201cAlways was, Always will be\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Written by Alison Overeem
\nUAICC Tasmania
\nLeprena
\nNovember 2020
\nNAIDOC week<\/strong><\/p>\n

To close with a prayer that was in the Presbytery email last week:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blessing<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Jan Richardson, Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Blessed are you\u00a0<\/span>who bear the light in unbearable times,<\/strong><\/div>\n
who testify\u00a0<\/span>to its endurance amid the unendurable,<\/strong><\/div>\n
who bear witness to its persistence<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
when everything seems in shadow and grief.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Blessed are you in whom the light lives,<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
in whom the brightness blazes<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
your heart a chapel<\/strong><\/div>\n
an altar where in the deepest night can be seen \u2014<\/strong><\/div>\n
the fire that shines forth in you\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
in unaccountable faith,<\/strong><\/div>\n
in stubborn hope,<\/strong><\/div>\n
in love that illumines every broken thing it finds.<\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

Well, I think that may be enough!\u00a0 My cat Leaf is still on the bed, but it is time she had a walk outside before it gets too hot.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blessings and love<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barbara<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello Faith Pals, We rejoice that some of the Covid-19 restrictions have lifted.\u00a0 It is still uncertain when we will be able to meet for worship on Sundays, but when we are able, we will let everyone know. Happy Monday!\u00a0 I started writing this now, because I was intending to wash the bed linen but one cat is still asleep on the bed (Janet Soo will understand this dilemma!) so I thought I would send out my email while I wait.\u00a0 I then looked at my Edward Hays, book and on November 8, he lists it as ‘New Soap Day.’! How appropriate, I thought, as I wait to do a load of laundry. So…let me tell you about new soap day.\u00a0 Apparently back in 1890 a new soap appeared , but no one was interested in it.\u00a0 It had been invented by a German chemist named Krafft.\u00a0 He had discovered if you mixed certain chemicals with alcohol, it made a lather-like soap from fat.\u00a0 Then came World War 1 (and yes, this is another of those inventions due to war).\u00a0 When the Allies blockaded Germany, no one was able to obtain natural fats (used for soap) but two men remembered Krafft’s invention, and produced a German wartime substitute for soap, a synthetic detergent that left no scum.\u00a0 In 1946 this synthetic detergent was manufactured under the name Tide. So…soap…as we know it today-born from conflict, tension and the passion to find a wartime soap substitute.\u00a0 Another useful product that has come out of war. Now, Edward Hays writes that we can learn a spiritual lesson from detergent (he even suggests that we might put a bottle of detergent next to our Bible, or near where we pray!) The Latin detergere means ‘to wipe away.’\u00a0 Hays writes: ‘It is divine to deterge a friend, spouse or stranger’s sin as soon as it happens.\u00a0 Without waiting to be asked to pardon whatever mess the offense might have created, deterge it, wipe it up at once with a love-soaked sponge.\u00a0 Deterging is difficult even when someone asks you to do it, and is really amazing when you do it before being asked.\u00a0 Yet life becomes more harmonious and full of grace the faster you go to work on deterging the spills, spots and stains others make in your life.’ So…soap.\u00a0 Are you going to look at it differently now? ‘Have mercy on me, O God …blot out my transgressions. wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin, …Purge me with hyssop, and i shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.’ -Psalm 51, vss1, 2, 7 ‘let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.’ -Hebrews 10: 22 News: Jack came through surgery, but there is still a long way to go regarding healing\/recovery.\u00a0 Please keep Elv, Martin, Noy and Jack in your prayers, please. This is a big week for Alan and Fredrica: blood tests and appointments today, and chemotherapy on Wednesday.\u00a0 Please keep them in your prayers, as well as Rohini and Jaya, Shirley Edwards, Margaret Wills.\u00a0 Also Lex and Leora.\u00a0 Lex\u00a0 went home on Thursday, and is doing very well, but again, a long road to recovery after open-heart surgery. Really-put ALL of the church family in your prayers! Plus our military, and those who have served in war.\u00a0 It is Remembrance Day on Wednesday, so let us remember those who were willing to sacrifice their lives for freedom: ‘On 11 November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent after four years of continuous warfare. With their armies retreating and close to collapse, German leaders signed an Armistice, bringing to an end the First World War. From the summer of 1918, the five divisions of the Australian Corps had been at the forefront of the allied advance to victory. Beginning with their stunning success at the battle of Hamel in July, they helped to turn the tide of the war at Amiens in August, followed by the capture of Mont St Quentin and P\u00e8ronne, and the breaching of German defences at the Hindenburg Line in September. By early October the exhausted Australians were withdrawn from battle. They had achieved a fighting reputation out of proportion to their numbers, but victory had come at a heavy cost. They suffered almost 48,000 casualties during 1918, including more than 12,000 dead. In the four years of the war more than 330,000 Australians had served overseas, and more than 60,000 of them had died. The social effects of these losses cast a long shadow over the postwar decades.’ It is also NAIDOC Week; so let us celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.\u00a0 This reflection is from our Synod website: Always was, Always will be Always was Always will be The Lands I walk on And the Lands that walk within me To know the history of First Peoples Is to know the importance of place, To know what being on country is, Is to know and feel the connection To want to hear the stories and feel the stories is our call to all, To want to know and hear the Lands as a gift, to our being and knowing, To know and hear from First Peoples, is how we as First and Second Peoples are called to the growing To know the significance and compass that abounds us, as First Peoples through place, is to know our links to the Land surpasses all time and space But in knowing that connection Is to know and reflect on, dispossession and its true realisation, To hear the Land relation, is a call to know and reflect on the impacts of invasion and colonisation What is country, what is milaythina ningee (Mother Earth) in the now and in the forever time for First Peoples? 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