GREETINGS TO THE FEASTING FELLOWSHIP OF CHRIST THE KING!
Followers of the Risen One, I’ve asked our kids to think about Jesus as the gate. They are video game players and like to figure out puzzles. I wonder what will come of their explorations.
In Jesus’ time, gates for sheep folds were rare and often the shepherd served as the gate, lying across the entrance. Devote some time thinking and pondering about Jesus as the gate. Jesus as the gate that protects us from lurking dangers so we can rest and be restored in a safe place. Jesus as the gate that opens the way for us to venture out into the pasture lands of our world to graze and explore God’s beautiful creation. Jesus is the gate that opens the way to God allowing us to be safely in God’s awesome and magnificent presence. Play with this image, this metaphor expanding the relationship we have with Jesus.
This is part of the Easter festival spirit, a spirit of playfulness and frivolity. In 1 Peter’s letter we are given another image to play with and explore. Peter encourages us to be living stones, letting ourselves be built into a spiritual house. Take some time to look at humanity’s creativity in building with stones. It’s truly amazing and then think about what God can do and build through us, living stones.
On Sunday, bring your stones and I will also provide some stacking stones for us to play with in this feasting, festival season of Easter that celebrates a rolling stone revealing an empty tomb. Christ is risen! Alleluia!
Bold Inquisitive Belief Loving Expansively,
Pastor Connie Spitzack
