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Peace with Justice Sunday: making things right

By UMCOMM
Apr 12, 2008, 15:27

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Peace with Justice Sunday: making things right

Witness to God’s hope for a faithful, loving world.

Your gift offers The United Methodist Church a voice in advocating for peace and justice at home and around the world.

A father was minding his son while trying to study. The boy simply would not leave him alone.

In desperation the father thought of a plan. Thumbing through a magazine, he saw a map of the world and explained to his son that this was a picture of our hemisphere. Tearing the picture into pieces, the father said if the boy would put it back together, he would reward him with a surprise. The father left the room, confident he would not be disturbed for the rest of the afternoon. Imagine his surprise when his son soon called him to the other room to see the finished puzzle.

“How did you do this?” the astonished father asked. “You don’t know what the world looks like.”

“No, Daddy,” the boy replied, “but when you tore it out of the magazine, I saw a picture of a man on the other side. I know what a man looks like, so I put the man together. If the man was right, the world would be right too.”

What a profound truth: “If the man was right, the world would be right too.” With God’s help, we have the power to make the world right.

--Jeanie Stoppel (Adapted from “Lament and Hope: Reaching Out in Love” Peace with Justice Advent Booklet)

For more information on Peace with Justice Sunday and other churchwide Special Sundays with offerings, please visit www.umcgiving.org. To order resources, call toll free (888) 346-3862.




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