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310 W. 11th Street    Pueblo, CO  81003

Dear Friends in Christ,

A friend sent me the following and I like it very much.  I hope it is a blessing to you as well.

“A churchgoer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.  “I’ve gone for 30 years now and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons.  But for the life of me, I can’t remember a single one of them.  So I think I’m wasting my time and the pastors are wasting their time as well.”

This started a real controversy in the Letters to the Editor column.  It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:  ‘I’ve been married for 30 years now.  In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals.  But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals.  But I do know this.  They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work.  If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today.  Likewise if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today.

When you are down to nothing, God is up to something.  Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible.

Thank God for our physical and our spiritual nourishment.”

See you in Church,

 Rick Calhoun, Pastor

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The Cross and Flame is a registered trademark and the use is supervised by the General Council on Finance and Administration of The United Methodist Church. Permission to use the Cross and Flame must be obtained from the General Council on Finance and Administration of The United Methodist Church - Legal Department, 1200 Davis Street, Evanston, Illinois 60201-4193.