Surely, This Must Be It By Rev. Sarah Speed from March 5th

By Rev. Sarah Speed

Everyone has a job. I wash the potatoes, filling the sink with slivers of potato peel. You brine the turkey, hovering by the oven all afternoon. Someone sets the table, taking care to fill a vase with asters and marigolds, sprigs of holly, and shoots of evergreen. We play music while we prepare. “What the World Needs Now is Love” comes on. We can’t get it out of our heads. We whistle along to Dionne all afternoon. And eventually, the doorbell rings.

You’ve invited the neighbors, the grad student who sits in the second row at church, the widower in the choir. We add seats to the table. We go around the room and share one thing we’re grateful for. Eyes well up as we create a laundry list of beauty. The kids get squirmy, but we’re grateful for that too.

And then we eat! We scoop whipped potatoes and crisp green beans with fresh garlic. We pass the bread basket, leaving crumbs all over the table. They are tiny reminders of communion in our midst. And at the end of the night, when we walk our guests to their cars and carry sleeping children to their car seats, our neighbors say, "What a holy moment it all was." Surely this must be what heaven feels like. Surely we can create it together.

~ Rev. Sarah Speed

What if I told you humanity already has everything it needs to create abundance and a picture of the kingdom of God on earth?

What if I told you we’re meant to live from a place of abundance?

What if I told you that God cares about your scarcity?

What if I told you we are the abundance we seek?