ALL ARE WELCOME!
You Are Invited to a
Health and Wellness Christmas Party
12 pm Noon Thursday November 29
Valley View Community Center
400 W Meigs St Valley NE
to Celebrate Christmas and Share in Good Food and Fellowship!
Your favorite food dish donation is welcome!
Organized by: Spirit of Peace and the Health and Wellness Team.
Contact: Karen, 402-289-2902;
Pastors Cathy or Michael, 402-541-7019.
Spirit of Peace, Box 245, Valley, NE
SpiritofPeace.us
Spirit of Peace Celebrates Thanksgiving Day Environment Preparation Volunteers
There is so much to do in order to organize and present a successful event!
Spirit of Peace is blessed to have helpful volunteers generous with time, energy and other resources. We do our best to show our appreciation for our fantastic generous volunteers.
Some of the environment volunteers are pictured here.
Spirit of Peace celebrates and thanks every one of you!
Peace and Joy! Pastors Michael and Cathy Hanus
What: Free (Sweet!) Community Thanksgiving Day Meal
Who: You, Family, Friends, All Are Welcome!
When: November 22, 2018 Noon – 3:00 pm Thanksgiving Day
Where: 111 East Front Street, Valley, Nebraska 68064
Why: Share Our Blessings and Thanks with the Community!
All Participants Are Welcome. Bring Yourself, Family and Friends!
All Volunteers Are Welcome!
All Donations Are Appreciated!
Sponsored By Spirit of Peace Missional Community
Questions? Call, Text or eMail Pastors Michael or Cathy Hanus
Phone or Text: 402-541-7019 eMail: Spirit.Peace@outlook.com
SpiritofPeace.us
What Is Your Allergy?
Pastor Cathy Hanus, Holistic Health Coach
Opening Prayer
Blessings of God
The day is coming to a close,
and, like the disciples on the road to Emmaus,
we pause to break bread together.
May our eyes be opened, and,
in this act of common sharing,
may we see the risen Lord in one another.
May we see the Lord of Life in our food,
our conversation and lives shared in common.
May the blessing of God,
His peace and love,
rest upon our table. Amen.
– Edward Hays.
Presentation
Remedies, Natural Relief
Treat Low Blood Sugar with Real Food
Anomalies
Causes
Genetic anomalies
Vitamin deficiencies
Breads
History
Wheat, biblical
Original, oldest species fourteen chromosomes
Over time, grew to twenty eight chromosomes
Norman Borlaug, 1970s R&D, Nobel Peace Prize
Modern, GMO grains tailor to modern conveniences
Exacerbates Nutritional Exchanges in Human Gut
Eventually AutoImmune processes develop
So respond with consumption of anti-inflammatory foods
Gluten
Allergy
Sensitivity
Emotional Responses
Modern Beneficial Oils, Medium Chain Triglycerides
Choices
Organic Whole Grains
Natural Whole Grains
Processing Methods, too fine for the human gut
Meal
Appetizer
Organic Jack Fruit
Organic Celery
Natural Peanut Butter
Banana Slices
Main Dish
Natural Garden Fresh Spaghetti Squash
Garden Butternut Squash soup
Garden Fresh Organic Spinach
Garden Fresh Peppers
CRaisins
Dessert
Moon Grapes, natural non-GMO
Closing Hymn
Gift Finest Wheat
Richard Proulx
Cathedral Singers
Check Your Balsam!
Pastor Cathy Hanus Holistic Health Coach
Prayer May the Lord extend His infinite love and assistance to all people affected by Hurricane Michael and its aftermath.
LCMC 2018 Gathering Discussion
Presentation
Meditation Practices
Inhale Courage
Exhale Fear
Sugar added to our diets
Americans seem susceptible to anything with sugar added. Steve Darland, see Feature article about Balsamic Vinegar
Vitamin Deficiency
Meal
Salad
Greens, Spinach, Mizuna, Chard, Kale
Goat cheese
Hearts of Palm
Artichoke Hearts
Garden Red Cherry Tomato
Hemp Hearts, raw, shelled, hemp seeds
CRaisins, infused with Cherry juice
Salad Dressing, Balsamic Vinegar,
NB: check your Balsam! see https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradjaphe/2018/08/20/everything-you-never-knew-you-needed-to-know-about-balsamic-vinegar/#40b0812e49b3
Meat
Fresh Tuna
Vegetable
Spaghetti Squash
Beverage
Blueberry Passion Smoothie
1 cup Homemade Greek yogurt
1 cup Fresh Garden Blueberries
1 Garden Delicious Apple
1 Organic Orange Citrus, fruit, rind, no peel
add Ice to suit
Double blended
Dessert
Red Table Grapes
Closing Prayer Kindness
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law,” Galatians 5: 22-23.
Pray that you and your community will be filled with and known for kindness and compassion.
Father, I desire to display the fruit of kindness, yet sometimes I don’t know how to do so. Through Your Holy Spirit, please grow this fruit in me until it overflows into the lives around me. Prompt me with practical ideas to reach out and offer Your loving-kindness to those around me every day. When I am the one in need, help me to humbly open the door and allow the kindness of others into my life. Begin a movement of kindness in my community that catches and spreads. May we show kindness, not for recognition or a good feeling, but quietly, out of love and appreciation for the kindness You have shown us. Show us this week who needs a smile, a gesture, or a helping hand. Give us courage to act and not to expect anything in return. Amen.
– Amelia Rhodes.
https://www.ibelieve.com/faith/10-things-to-help-focus-praying-over-your-community.html
Autumn Luncheon Fellowship
Pastor Cathy Hanus Holistic Health Coach
Meditation Reflection
Prayer Invocation
Loving God, bless all those gathered here today as we come together in friendship and fellowship.
Thank you for the blessings of our individual and collective God-given gifts.
Place in our hearts the desire to make a difference to our families, to our community, to our country, and to the many cultures and peoples worldwide.
Give us balance in times of distraction and uncertainty.
Help us move towards our goals with determination and always with an abundant sense of humor.
Thank you for food in a world where many know only hunger; For our faith in a world where many know fear; For friends in a world where many know only loneliness.
Please bless this food we are about to share, those who prepared it, those who serve it, and those who have worked to make today the special occasion that it is.
For all of this we give you thanks.
– Izola White.
Meal
Garden vegetables
Butternut squash soup
Chunk Butternut
Blend
Purée
Pour over
Carrots
Kale
Broccoli
Tomatoes
Peppers variety
Radish
Dessert
Red Seedless Table Grapes
This Day Forward (2018).
A woman struggles to keep her faith and family intact after her husband is diagnosed with stage three brain cancer.
Come visit with Pastor Michael as he leads us on an “mmm” movie meet-up, meal and mingling adventure in the missional community. This meet-up will take us to a special showing of a movie release prior to its west coast premier scheduled for this upcoming November. We will have a live opportunity to meet members of the cast and family story the movie was written about.
https://livingchurch.org/2017/11/02/video-this-day-forward/
Pastor Michael invites youth and adults to accompany him to movie theaters in the community for movie viewing, light meals, fellowship and lively discussion.
“MMM”s: movie meet-ups, meals and mingling are a great way to enjoy the passing of time, energize our spirits and enjoy life.
If you have an interest in this activity in the missional community, please contact us at: Spirit.Peace@outlook.com
The Fourth Step – Fearing Our Feelings
We may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic. Page 279.
Basic Text, p.30. A common complaint about the Fourth Step is that it makes us painfully conscious of our defects of character. We may be tempted to falter in our program of recovery. Through surrender and acceptance, we can find the resources we need to keep working the steps.
It is not the awareness of our defects that causes the most agony, it is the defects themselves. When we were using, all we felt was the drugs; we could ignore the suffering our defects were causing us. Now that the drugs are gone, we feel that pain. Refusing to acknowledge the source of our anguish does not make it go away; denial protects the pain and makes it stronger. The Twelve Steps help us deal with the misery caused by our defects by dealing directly with the defects themselves.
If we hurt from the pain of our defects, we can remind ourselves of the nightmare of addiction, a nightmare from which we now awaken. We can recall the hope for release the Second Step gave us. We can again turn our will and our lives over, through the Third Step, to the care of the God of our understanding. Our Higher Power cares for us by giving us the help we need to work the rest of the Twelve Steps. We do not have to fear our feelings. Just for today, we can continue in our recovery.
Just for Today: I will not be afraid of my feelings. With the help of my Higher Power, I will continue in my recovery. – (c) 2018. NA World Services.
Step Two. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step Three. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Step Four. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Fear
Blue October
All my life
Been running from a pain in me
A feeling I don’t understand
Holding me down
So rain on me
Underwater
All I am, getting harder
A heavy weight
I carry around
Today
I don’t have to fall apart
I don’t have to be afraid
I don’t have to let the damage
Consume me,
My shadow see through me.
FIRST THINGS FIRST
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job, wife or no wife, we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God. – ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 98.
Before coming to A.A., I always had excuses for taking a drink: “She said,” “He said,” “I got fired yesterday,” “I got a great job today.” No area of my life could be good if I drank again. In sobriety my life gets better each day. I must always remember not to drink, to trust God, and to stay active in A.A. Am I putting anything before my sobriety, God, and A.A. today? – Daily Reflections. © 1990. Alcoholics Anonymous World Services.
Read AA Big Book Chapter 7. Working with Others.
Mature life is More than just a social hour in a room.
Step Three. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Establish priorities
Habituation transformation from bad, alcohol, to good, Higher Power.
Allegiance to God as we understand Him.
Replace the AA We term with I
Dependance on God
Manage life on life’s terms
First Thing First
Neon Trees
You are never gonna get
Everything you want in this world
First things first
Get what you deserve
It began when I was twenty-one years old
And my mom and dad were begging me to go
So I left a note and we went and hit the road
Me and Chris and all the stuff I own
I went out to find my soul and left the only comfort that I’d known
It wasn’t ’bout a girl or even California bleeding
It was all about me choosing where to go.