This Sunday At Peace
Scripture: John 20:19-31
There's a theme in the early appearances of Jesus after his resurrection:
not being recognized.
That the people who loved him and knew him could look right at him without seeing him.
They get there--it just takes a minute.
The gift in the sermon is the way we can lay that over our own lives. There's a whole world of grace, of love, of God's good right out in front of us.
Like looking up at the stop light and happening to see the dad and daughter singing their hearts out together in the next car over. The tangle of zucchini vines happening to hide the biggest, most perfect squash of them all. The stranger who turns out to be a dear friend. The birdsong on the morning when you forgot your headphones. The pure love that shows up for ailing people.
It's here.
We'll find it. We'll get there. It just might take a minute to see it. To be it.
That's the hope and prayer we'll lift our voices for as we endeavor into the Easter season.
Peace and Easter blessings to you,
Paula