The light of Christ shines into the darkness we have been living in since March 2020.
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Overnight we began keeping our distance from one another – from extended family, friends, and strangers at the grocery store. We made masks from bandanas and rubber bands. We hoarded toilet paper (some haven’t needed to buy TP in the past year) and stocked up on any of the essentials we could find. We sat in front of our televisions and scrolled endlessly online looking for information about the virus, determining what we needed to do to protect ourselves and our loved ones.
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There has been much this year to leave us feeling as though being thankful, assuming a posture of gratitude is beyond what this year has done to us. And still, we will pause and give thanks.
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The greatest commandments, loving “the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength” and loving your neighbor is a little less daunting knowing that before we ever attempt to fulfill it, Christ first loved us.
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The things of the past, the things that competed for our attention, and pulled us away from God no longer have a hold on our lives. And now, in the new life, we put on – whether it be two weeks or two decades ago – we find a new life, free from the things that competed for our attention, living in the fullness of the faithfulness of Jesus.
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At a basic level (is anything basic when it comes to theology?), the saving power of the Grace of Christ is perhaps the one thing theologians and Christians around the world can actually agree one.
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It is difficult to put into words the anguish we feel for this amount of life that has been lost.
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Grace comes to us in the ordinary - in bread and wine, and in water.
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There are a lot of ways to spin my inability to effectively sustain plant growth but at the end of the day, I’d be doing what we do best in DC - spinning a positive tale on a negative reality.
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God offers us an exit ramp off this tortuous merry-go-round and onto a higher way of living in which we work and do and strive not as a way to save ourselves or prove our worth but as an expression of love, joy, God-given purpose and connection to something larger.
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Solitude as an outward spiritual discipline creates community by respecting it.
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Yesterday morning was full of anger, tears, and questions. We moved through each of these until we got the root of Camden’s grief.
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We allow worship of busyness (or control) to replace the enoughness given to us by Christ.
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Jesus Christ is present with us, freeing us from division, hate, and despair, and extending an invitation to step into his grace.
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How are you enjoying what God has created while at home? I’d love to hear about it and I am sure others would too. Call a friend up, send me an email, or talk to a neighbor (staying 6-feet apart) and let’s celebrate the wonders of creation.
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What are we to now that Easter Sunday has come and gone and it seems as though nothing has changed in our lives. We are still quarantined or sheltering in place in hour homes. We are separated from our families and friends, and still, Christ is risen, truly risen.
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To taste and see is to realize that God is near. God is so near in fact, that our breath, is God's presence in our bodies. Divine breath filling our lungs, sustaining us for yet another day.
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Each day we firmly plant our feet on the floor, in a brief moment we rarely notice, we make a choice: are we going to have a case of the Mondays, the Mondays we dread or are we going to have a case of the Mondays in the best possible way.
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“Poor Christians during the time of the coronavirus, unable to celebrate the Eucharist. They’ll have to make do with *only* the Word of God.” - Rev. Fleming Rutledge
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