“For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
2 Cor 5:7
This is the final Spiritual Reflection From Belmont Chapel for the 2019-2020 school year, as Prize Day is this week. We will be back in your email inbox when St. Mark’s starts up again in the fall.
While we are apart, remember Paul
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s words in his second letter to the Corinthians: “for we walk by faith, not by sight.” It is a good thing that we walk by faith, because if we walked by sight—given what we are seeing at this moment in our country and in our world—it would be very hard to walk indeed.
A fellow priest once suggested that when Moses parted the Red Sea to escape from Pharaoh
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s army, it wasn’t like he raised his staff and the waters split in a neat seam, with dry land underfoot and a clear view of the path to the other side. The scene she envisioned was more like this: Behind Moses was an army that wanted to kill him and the Israelites, and in front of Moses was the sea. Moses put forward his foot, and the sea parted just enough for that one footstep. Then he did it again, and it happened again. As the seabed got deeper, he found himself and the Israelites walking with water threatening on every side, in great, high walls; all they could see was the walls of water and the sky above. All they could do was hope they were going in the right direction and that the walls wouldn’t collapse on them; that somehow, they would get safely to the other shore.
Stay close to each other when the waters hem you in. Walk by faith. And may God bless and keep you, and the students we are graduating this weekend, this day and always; Amen.
-- The Rev. Barbara Talcott, St. Mark’s School
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