Pause in the Pilgrimage

HOMEGOING SERVICE FOR SIS. EMMA KENNEDY PS 131 OCT. 1, 2007 BBC

A PAUSE IN THE PILGRIMAGE OF SIS. EMMA G. KENNEDY

PSALM 131:1-3   A SONG OF ASCENTS. OF DAVID.

LORD, MY HEART IS NOT HAUGHTY, NOR MY EYES LOFTY.  

NEITHER DO I CONCERN MYSELF WITH GREAT MATTERS,  

NOR WITH THINGS TOO PROFOUND FOR ME.

2 SURELY I HAVE CALMED AND QUIETED MY SOUL,  

LIKE A WEANED CHILD WITH HIS MOTHER;

 LIKE A WEANED CHILD IS MY SOUL WITHIN ME. 

3 O ISRAEL, HOPE IN THE LORD                        

FROM THIS TIME FORTH AND FOREVER.

INTRO: PEOPLE TRAVEL MORE THAN EVER BEFORE. WE’VE EXPANDED ON OUR MODES OF TRANSPO. WALK, BIKE, BOAT, CAR, BUS, TRAIN, PLANE, JET, ROLLERBLADES, SEGWAY.  PEOPLE TRAVEL FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS SOME GOOD AND SOME NOT SO GOOD.  ADAM BEGAN HIS TREK 4 YRS AGO WHEN ILITIA ATTACKED HIS VILLAGE IN REGION OF DAFAAUR IN SUDAN. HE RAN, WAS SEPARATED AND INO ORDER TO ELUDE REBELS HE SLEPT IN THE ROUGHT TERRAIN AND MADE HIS WAY TO EGYPT.  ON NIGHT IN THE SINAI HE SAW LIGHTS…TWINKLING LIGHTS OF ISRAEL AND HE SIMPLY WALKED ACROSS THE BOARDER. HE WAS ARRESTED AND JAILED AND SENT TO A KIBBUTZ. HIS PLIGHT WAS BROUGHT TO THE ATTN: OF A DR. CHAIM PERI THE 66YR OLD DIR. OF THE YEMIN ORDE AND ISRAELI VILLIAGE FOR YOUTH… ADAM PILGRIMAGE TOOK HIM TO A PLACE WHERE THERE ARE 500 RESIDENTS, FROM OVER 20 COUNTIES..77 ACRES ..WITH PEO. HEALING FROM SCARS OF CONFLICT, CHAOS AND ABUSE. THEY’VE FOUND A PLACE OF PURPOSE AND PEACE.

WE ARE ALL PILGRIMS… PURITIANS ON THE MAYFLOWER/INDIANS NATIVE CHEROKEE INDIANS ON THE TRAIL OF TEARS / OR THE PLIGHT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE INFOMRAL NETWORK OF SECRET ROUTES AND SAFE HOUSES INTO FREE STATES IN WHAT WAS KNOWN AS THE UNDEGROND RR.  WE AR EALL PILGRIAMS PASSING THRU THIS BARREN LAND.

COUPLED W/ ITS CLANDESTINCE MISSION …FRO SLAVEY TO FREEDOM ..WERE SONGS…AND THE SONGS HAD MEANING…KUM BA YAH/STEAL AWAY/SWING LOW SWING CHARIOT/DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE/AINT GONNA LET NO BODY TURN ME ROUND/ DIDN’T MY LORD DELIVER DANIEL/NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I SEE/I WANT JESUS TO WALK WITH ME.

EXPL: THIS IS A SONG OF ASCENT,

A SONG OF THE PILGRIMAGE.JOURNEY

121, 124, 127,133

4TH TRIAD

129 – STRESS PERSONAL THREATS, ANXIEITY AND SIN

130 – STRESSES GOD’S FORGIVENESS, AND LOVE

131 – STRESSES REST …REST OF HEART AND HOPE IN GOD.

FROM FRETFUL INFANCY TO MATURE HUMILITY AND REST.

PRIDE VS PEACE

THREE SIMPLE VERSES

INTER: WHAT ENCOURAGEMENT WAS GIVEN BACK THEN AS THEY JOURNEY TO ZION. WHAT ENCOURAGEMENT IS GIVEN TO US TODAY.

I. HEART FILLED WITH HUMILITY

II. HEART FUELED BY HOLINESS

III HEART FIXED UPON HOPE

PROP: PAUSE AND GOD WILL TRANSFORM YOU HEART AND MIND AND LIFE.