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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2019-03-07, Page 17PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2019. Business Directory Free delivery in Wingham & surrounding area PAUL COOK ELECTRIC Home, Farm & Commercial Wiring BELGRAVE 519-357-1537 BROWN’S PHARMASAVE SHELVING & RACKING 519-524-1740 Lakeside Large instock selection of pallet racking, store shelving, display cases and more for Industrial, Residential, Farm & Retail www.lakesideshelving.com lakesidemarket@gmail.com 33842 Market Rd., North of Goderich, off Hwy. 21 D. C. 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In the very next section, Jesus predicts his death the first time. He tells them he must suffer and be rejected and killed, then in three days he will rise again, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. I can only imagine what that rebuke might have sounded like. “No Jesus! That’s ridiculous! You’re not going to die! Didn’t we just confirm that you are the Messiah? You’re going to save all of Israel. You’re going to restore our fortunes, drive out the oppressing Romans! Suffer? Die? Don’t be ridiculous! You’re the Messiah, not some average chump who can be held down by the government and religious people! You’re not like the rest of us.” Jesus looks to Peter, who only a few verses earlier had correctly identified Jesus as the Christ, and says, “Get behind me, Satan! You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men!” Peter wasn’t ready to listen to Jesus; to really listen and to hear what it meant to be the Messiah. He was happy to listen to Jesus when Jesus was saying what he wanted to hear. It was when Jesus said things he didn’t like that his ears stopped working. So Jesus speaks up even louder. Now he raises his voice to the whole crowd, as well as the disciples. He tells them that any who follow him must deny themselves, take up the cross, and follow him. Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for him and the gospel will save it. Make no mistake, Jesus is not just speaking to the disciples. When he raised his voice to the crowd, he raised it so loud that we can still hear it today. He says to us, here today: follow me. It will not be easy, but it is worth it. Pick up your cross and follow me. To those of us who are trying to say, “I’m just looking,” Jesus turns and says, “Enough looking. It’s time to listen. Time to follow.” Lent starts next week. We are going to journey with Jesus to the cross. We are going to listen to what Jesus is telling us, what He’s saying about what it means to be powerful, what it means to save and what it means to be healed. We are going to listen, and not just look. We are going to see Jesus on the cross, pierced with nails, crowned with thorns, His back torn open, His muscles too weak to lift himself up to breathe. We are going to see the ultimate picture of defeat, and instead of letting the horror of what we are seeing cloud our minds, we are going to keep listening. That way, we will hear Him say with his final breath, “It is accomplished.” Then we will know what Jesus was saying to us all along. Following him doesn’t mean high positions of glory and honour. It doesn’t mean flaunting wealth or righteousness. It doesn’t mean beating up our oppressors or putting other people down. Following Jesus means walking the lonely road with Him, walking the road of suffering and scorn that leads us to the cross. And if we really listen, we will also hear the end of Jesus’ declaration, that He would suffer many things, be rejected and killed. After three days, He will rise again. See the pain and see the glory. The glory of Jesus on the mountain, transfigured. The holiness that shines through His humanness, and then listen. Listen to the words that Jesus is saying to us still today. Push aside the desire to protect ourselves, the desire to brush Jesus off and say, “I’m just looking,” and listen. Following Jesus will be difficult, but worth it Blyth’s five-year Campaign 14/19 initiative was created in 2014 as a volunteer-driven force with three stated objectives: fully renovate and update Blyth Memorial Community Hall; define the case for the Canadian Centre for Rural Creativity and create a fund or community trust to support operations in challenging circumstances. Ambitious exciting and successful, the 14/19 campaign will be winding down this year. “The remarkable restoration and renovation of Memorial Hall is complete. This $4.2-million partnership was through a collaboration with the Blyth Centre for the Arts, the Province of Ontario, North Huron Council and the individual efforts of hundreds of volunteers. This noble building is continuing to provide new life and energy to the community with its improved amenities, state-of-the-art connectivity and comfortable spaces. Every one of us should feel proud about the exceptional progress we have achieve, together,” says Steven Sparling, Chair, Campaign 14/19. The current 14/19 leadership team includes David Armstrong, Elli Cohen, Rick Elliott, Karen Stewart and Steven Sparling. The final tasks for this group will be to prepare for the transition from the 14/19 campaign to the new entity that will manage the next leg of the journey: the Canadian Centre for Rural Creativity, of which Peter Smith is project/creative director. “Blyth is a remarkable community. Resilient, smart and courageous. Creative new ideas are being hatched here, in this place of 1,005 citizens, that are unthinkable in almost any other small, rural community. Opportunities are being created and through these developments Blyth is proving its capacity to punch above its weight in charting new paths at a time when “rural” is being challenged like never before. We have been host to two highly-acclaimed Rural Talks to Rural (R2R) Conferences, which demonstrated the appetite of rural leaders from across North America and Europe to collaborate, discover, create and in time, to help influence what 21st century rural may look like. We know that urbanization and the clout of urban communities is unprecedented and in this environment rural and small towns everywhere must find new and compelling ways to remain viable, relevant and innovative; to prove their value and importance to all society,” says Smith. “As someone with one foot in Toronto and the other in Blyth, I see this place as privileged to be in position to help lead the way for rural and small town thinking and revitalization. This is no longer talking about survival, this is about planning for success. Stay tuned.” 14/19 to transition to CCRC Drop by our office in Blyth or Brussels and check out our wonderful selection of books. We have books for all ages. 541 Turnberry St., Brussels 519-887-9114 413 Queen St., Blyth 519-523-4792