Communion on the Moon!- Thanks good friend, Ron Walters!

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This is beautiful!


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"Life is a coin. You can spend it anyway

you wish, but you can only spend it once."

41 years ago ...guess what happened...






I had not heard of this before . . .





Communion on the Moon



I love this. How many of you knew? Too bad this type news doesn't travel as fast as bad.





Communion on the Moon: July 20, 1969



(This is an article by Eric Metaxas)



Forty years ago two human beings changed history by walking on the surface of the moon. But what happened before Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong exited the Lunar Module is perhaps even more amazing, if only because so few people know about it. "I'm talking about the fact that Buzz Aldrin took communion on the surface of the moon. Some months after his return, he wrote about it in Guideposts magazine.



And a few years ago I had the privilege of meeting him myself. I asked him about it and he confirmed the story to me, and I wrote about in my book Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God (But Were Afraid to Ask).



The background to the story is that Aldrin was an elder at his Presbyterian Church in Texas during this period in his life, and knowing that he would soon be doing something unprecedented in human history, he felt he should mark the occasion somehow, and he asked his minister to help him. And so the minister consecrated a communion wafer and a small vial of communion wine. And Buzz Aldrin took them with him out of the Earth's orbit and on to the surface of the moon.



He and Armstrong had only been on the lunar surface for a few minutes when Aldrin made the following public statement:

"This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way." He then ended radio communication and there, on the silent surface of the moon, 250,000 miles from home, he read a verse from the Gospel of John, and he took communion. Here is his own account of what happened:



"In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages which contained the bread and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup.

Then I read the Scripture, 'I am the vine, you are the branches. Whosoever abides in me will bring forth much fruit.. Apart from me you can do nothing.



I had intended to read my communion passage back to earth, but at the last minute [they] had requested that I not do this. NASA was already embroiled in a legal battle with Madelyn Murray O'Hare, the celebrated opponent of religion, over the Apollo 8 crew reading from Genesis while orbiting the moon at Christmas. I agreed reluctantly.



I ate the tiny Host and swallowed the wine. I gave thanks for the intelligence and spirit that had brought two young pilots to the Sea of Tranquility . It was interesting for me to think: the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the very first food eaten there, were the communion elements.



And of course, it's interesting to think that some of the first words spoken on the moon were the words of Jesus Christ, who made the Earth and the moon.

WOW!!!!

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http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/aldrin-communion.htm

WORDS- by Sam

Words can certainly be powerful.  Spoken words sneaked in a muslim president on us. 

I am just Sammy Kegley, one of ten children raised by Forest and Mary Kegley on McConnell Ave. in Portsmouth, Ohio.  Adjectives are words which describe and nouns are the names of persons, places or things.  Two words which I would neither neither want to be described as are a racist nor a gay.  I think of no way to defend racism, because I believe we are all God's children whatever circumstance we were born into.  I am not smart enough to even speak of the word "gay" which meant happy or carefree when I grew up in Portsmouth and I would believe that it mostly fit me then.  But not for the well known meaning of the word "gay" now.  I just use the word without condemming it.

One of my favorite words is "integrity" which to me means doing the right thing in a given situation.  My second book is "Acquaintances With Integrity" written in 2002.  I like the word because, in my life, those are the people who have had the best influence on my living habits.  It shouldn't surprise those of my acquaintances that a couple of those people I interviewed are ministers and I thank the Christian God for their words which continually influence me.  But all of those acquaintances and many others who I did not interview for the book, are just good people in my sight who obtain respect by their consistently "right thing" actions.

My favorite adjective is also a noun- "Christian".  Do I deserve the name applied to me.  No, I don't deserve it but it is mine anyway because God sent his Son to die for me and if I believe in him He will advocate for me before His Father in Heaven.  How wonderful are the words of Jesus Christ!

WORDS- From the Jewish World Review

[ D A I L Y I N S P I R A T I O N ]






"Positive Word Power: Building a better world with the words you speak"



Talk is NOT cheap.



Words are our most valuable - and most powerful - assets. Through words,

we can forge or tear down relationships, inspire or demean our children,

spouses, or friends, offer comfort or inflict pain. Through words, we can

create an atmosphere of harmony or discord, contentment or conflict,

blessing or, Heaven forbid, its opposite.



Controlling and properly channeling our words can seem as impossible as

stopping a rushing river.



But the Torah (Bible) teaches us that we can --- and must.



TODAY: Nothing to Celebrate





http://jewishworldreview.com/inspiration/word_power.php3