From our collect and scripture this week …
Give us true bread
The Lord is my shepherd and I
shall not be afraid
He made mud and opened his eyes
and
from our life
Church is suspended at least until April …
School is suspended until April
We are worried
We are anxious
We are disappointed
We are frustrated
We are angry
We don’t have enough information
We have too much information
Is there any intersection between the words of scripture and life at the moment? It is indeed always our challenge. Maybe just a bit more poignant right now, as we all come to live in a time of anxiety. Testing our interpretations of what God says and what we say, what Jesus does and what we do with that. What we feel and what we believe.
Jesus and the man born blind. This story, an interaction that challenges everything for the folks who are interested in what Jesus is doing. First, Jesus is still hanging around blind people and beggars, definitely people to be avoided. Then, Jesus is healing, making these outcasts well on the Sabbath, on a holy day. The sick or the infirmed were too avoided on the Sabbath, let alone touch them heal them, make them well. Next, Jesus confronts the very idea of where blindness comes from, why it exists. And not just blindness, Jesus confounded the very idea of sin, especially generational sin, sin passed down from one generation to the next. Whew. That’s a lot for a lifetime let alone one Sunday’s reading.
Although isn’t the story really central to who and what Jesus is all about. These signs and wonder, the miracles draw attention to places where life has been or has become complacent. Situations where rules once important now overrun the needs of the community. Where common understandings of sin and disease are challenged and where the observers are now blind to the world. That’s Jesus the disrupter. I love this Jesus.
We beloved are disrupted. Can we be disrupted of the good? That is for us to determine. Happy disruption
No you aren’t going to church here is what we are offering:
- Sunday worship live streamed and recorded, other prayer opportunities
- Godly play stories
- Classes – Why Church Matters
- Meetings
- Prayer groups
- Groups created to care, pray and talk to each other
- Finding ways of staying connected through technology; phone calls, notes, email, group chats
- Continue to bring canned food to church the needs are great
- Read your email
- Go to pastoralcare@ccparish.org and let us know how you would like to be involved in our response to our community. Writing notes, making phones calls, sending emails, volunteering to pick up groceries or medicine for those who need it.
Critical for improved technology
- Do you have any experience with sound engineering? Do you have any experience with video editing ? we need your help !!!
Also
Our vestry is calling the parish membership this week to check in and do a baseline survey of needs and concerns.
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Rev. Alison +
