Rev. Bryan S. Breault MDiv, MSW
Director of Outdoor Ministries
Maine Conference, United Church of Christ

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May 5, 2009

"And I'd discuss the Holy Books with the learned men several hours every day.  That would be the greatest joy of all."
-Tevya,, Fiddler on the Roof (Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock).

Some who do not understand mystery speak of things which they do not understand, but they will boast that the mystery of the truth belongs to them alone.                         -The Apocalypse of Peter - most likely 2nd Century                          from The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels. p. 103
	We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. ~Barack Obama
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Please remember in prayer: Sgt. Jordan D. Cable  Jordan is my Godson currently serving in Afghanistan

  Photos from Janos and Gabriella's Wedding in the Ukraine  

May 3, 2008

Separate Pages: apart from the above blog:

Continuing Education in Italy (Oct. 2006)

 Article for the Association of United Church Educators Newsletter

Sabbatical: Pilgrimage to Turkey (Autumn 2004)

An essay on Homecoming (March 2004)

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The Slow Work of God
by Teilhard de Chardin

Above all, trust in the slow work of God
We are quite naturally impatient in everything we do
     to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages
We are impatient of being on the way
     to something unknown, something new.
And yet it is in the law of all progress that it is made
     by passing through some stages of instability.
And that may take a very long time.

     So it is with you.

Your ideas mature gradually  -   let them grow,
let them shape themselves without undue haste.
Don't force them on,
     as though you could be on time.
Only God could say what this new spirit,
     gradually forming within you will be.
Give God the benefit of believing
     that God's hand is leading you surely
     through the absurdity, and the becoming.
And accept, for love of God,
     the anxiety of feeling yourself in
     suspense and incomplete.

And above all, trust in the slow work of  God.

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"The normalcy of civilization is not
the inevitability of human nature"
                  -John Dominic Crossan, October 1, 2005

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