REMINDER:
Daylight Savings starts this Sunday, set clocks forward one hour.
This Lent (March 5-April 19), we follow the Sanctified Art series “Everything in Between,” an invitation to navigate the polarities in our lives, like “faith & works” or “rest & growth,” or “grief & hope.” We will continue to follow Jesus’ ministry in the Gospel of Luke and imagine together where God can meet us “in between.” In it all we acknowledge complexity in our spiritual lives, that God shows up in shades of gray, rainbow hues and everywhere in between.
Many of us may be familiar with the tried-and-true story of Jesus’ visit to his friends Mary and Martha, beloved sisters of Lazarus (Luke 10:38-42). Mary is an attentive hostess, sitting at Jesus’ feet and giving him her undivided attention. Her sister Martha busily prepares the meal, eventually getting resentful and blurting out: “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to prepare the table all by myself? Tell her to help me.”
Can any of you relate? I can.
This story has captured faithful attention throughout Christian history, because it is so true about human behavior, sibling rivalry, different temperaments in relationships and the ageless creative spiritual tension between being and doing.
On Sunday, we will re-enter this story and ask about our own inner Marys and Marthas, and what it means to find God amid both our faith and our works.
We will also celebrate the baptism of a much-beloved 14-month-old.
Come for the story, come for community, come for all the LOVE!
In faith,
Kent
Image of Mary and Martha from JesusMafa, Cameroon
