This Sunday At Peace
Scripture: Luke 14:1, 7-14
"A Labor of Love" ... Now that's a beautiful idea, but what's even more gorgeous is seeing it in action.
I think of Marce making the "Welcome to Peace" sign for our door, of Susie bringing in the latest seasonal special donuts just because, of Bob pulling out the "how-to" tech checklist every week and following it to a "T" even though he knows it backwards, forwards, and upside down... Oooh. I could get carried away with the labors of love you'll witness on a Sunday morning at Peace Church, not to mention when you step out the door into the great wide world of our community's lives.
This Sunday, we get one of those days that my seminary preaching professor regularly bemoaned, but which I love: mixing a secular holiday (Labor Day) and a Sunday. Because, to me, it's not about making the secular sacred, it's about having the great privilege of looking up and taking off our "normalcy" tinted glasses and seeing all of life for what it is:
Unthinkably, blessedly, beautifully, and sometimes even frighteningly sacred.
It's beyond a labor of love. Here, the labor IS love. What gorgeous, great work we get to do together.
Peace to you,
Paula