Jesus is Lord. In the same sense that early Christians proclaimed that Jesus, not Caesar, is Lord, remember that no one else – not any hierarch, not any ecclesiastical official, not any one of you – is Lord. We belong to God, whom we know in Jesus, and there is no other place where we find the ground of our identity.
We are celebrating our first anniversary today. We actually began operations in this incarnation on April 19, but we’ve decided that today is easier to remember, and probably represented the first day we had most of the bugs worked out. We’d like to thank everyone who has made us a part of their day, and to ask for your support, if you think we’ve earned it.
Two Sunday school teachers meet to discuss God and faith from the Protestant and Catholic perspectives. Hilarity ensues.
How powerful is this need to see with our own eyes, to feel, to taste, to hear, to smell. Though the aural evidence of the presence of peepers was overwhelming, a sound I’ve welcomed every spring of my life, the urge to actually see one and – better still – to hold one for a few seconds was strong. It was strong enough to compel me to get my shoes and jeans soaking wet in the chill of a spring evening.
Jesus, having fulfilled his earthly mission, went to the Mount of Olives, took leave of his mother and the disciples, and ascended from there to his Father in heaven. It was his final act on this earth, but it was an act that opens to us, his followers, endless possibilities, for Jesus did not return to the Father alone.