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Elizabeth and Zechariah speak

 Cate Thorn explores the Advent season through the characters of Elizabeth and Zechariah from Luke’s gospel 
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Elizabeth and Zechariah speak

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Then I can go home. Please be seated. It's religious season of waiting season in which we tell tale of God past been called McCain. The people of ancient enabling us to drill deeper and to faithfully and panicked Divine business. An increasing number of people have any idea what those were? Traditional models mice. They have been traditional irons us that we live in. this is the story of creation and first appears, and we went While we wait. What do we do? I think it's fair to say that you must have patience for waiting with varying degrees. Support for patients with cancer. It all depends a little bit on the interest. We are waiting for and trust and the confidence of the one. Who's keeping us waiting, every expectation of how long is reasonable. And what we remember to bring to distract ourselves from the meeting time. I was in the mission. The time. Somebody else said, I'm just wasting time. The few of us actually speak to time. So in any time we sang, we went with expectation. What are we waiting for again? That's right. Jesus to come again. We scored gone to their gods. But anyway we wait we wait until you know what could become could become an identity. Expecting to be, you'll see gold now. I wonder really what we waiting for. And maybe as long as we are waiting the onus of responsibility for God being made. Real in time, doesn't fall on us, it falls onto God, who came? I want to be the Justice Jesus declared. The kingdom of God is at hand that the presence of God to all centers, and has to be insane. Fully with us every moment of your time in which we live if we took time to us. If it is. The story of the past that we can leave. The story of the past, we tackle the culmination of Jesus is populated with the cast of characters in for those of us who know the story. And thank you. How many? We try to imagine seem to website affected or maybe we're actually looked suspiciously The Story Action today. It's a story that has spirit. In today's Gospel, even if you disable that, you heard things like zipper. It is the Angel of the temple within States for France. Numbers are familiar to us. We have to. Is Lawrence Wright's? The nouns. it was fiction that allow us to isolate ourselves to draw balance to visit And even in scripture about arises. so now, We don't have to transfer those. We know those. So, this is what we decided in our minds, that we would look at the characters. What the characters are the gospel text did, we paid attention to the loops, so that's weird. Next. Rather than something safe and Untouchable over there. We had to take considered had considerable closed. Hauntings. In family, the Lord, with all sorts of things before we all live and because we were looking at differently from being this sex text of scripture. ER, to Anna by Script within. Those folks have been through that text and we named the boobs and then character to whom We discovered that certain who's gathered around. we also discovered that we had made some assumptions about which characters were doing which them and they were supposed to So, we discovered or groups of characters each with a particular connection. as we look to the collection before us, and this was something she gained a great statue in place, it was great deal, surprise presence and their participation Who's on first? Doesn't mean Jesus. Baby drawn to me. This is Rupert from community. Even so, she used to chosen to be the one to rent a booth. The one who stole my life, back to Hernandez community. Zechariah. Zechariah is a priest anymore when I was were possible because of the community, the people who save the community They were. in this instance, a Jewish people And the story has Integrity in that community in the Jewish now to her God presents. Second Elizabeth. With my pen. But the players were rolled too soon as the one that winter that we can lease or films, or perhaps, even some funds that Jewish Johnson seemed to turn into recall, the people of Israel. Is not. Jesus, John. Without Jesus. So be paused to look for the boobs, we listen to what called our attention on their dad, who was a script for that. They are speaking. And as the thing that caught our attention was interpreted this as a Jewish When it comes to Christian, we use it to serve the needs of our story. So do we come to colonize dominated with us? Such a smooth piece of scripture as we really are. We got to go, I understand. How many people? How many contexts? How many voices and stories and situations? Do we filter to be silenced, we discount doing screwed. That might be what we need to hear. That our church needs to hear that. I look next. And we tell the story with its claim of America teacher life with cover. And Eliza were you, we tell them because we do So this infinite, how that goes. Have a look and I'm just the boobs that little choosing to live by because we can change the can transfer it onto my things. How about mckillop at a time, I'm stupid to spend even paying attention to what is actually. For to stirs us. Snow's, which to reminisce. And the hope of the future, some Divine music. Refusing our response. Refusing to participate in the divine presence, Borland. It's perhaps with expectation too soon. Booty. it moves and those with him and those who are silenced, This is because pores to listen. Intern. And we align ourselves with Divine desire.