On the third Sunday of Easter, Pastor Beth began by asking, “At what times in your life do you experience God? Where are you when you see Him shining through?” Some offered “time with family”, “the birth of a child”, “being in nature”, “listening to music”, “in a hospital room”, “enjoying art”, “the death of a loved one”.
Pastor Beth described those times as thin places; where the boundaries between heaven and earth touch, the gap between secular and spiritual is shortened, and God’s light shines through that transparency.
In today’s Gospel, Luke 24: 13-35, the disciples experienced this thin place. As Jesus walked along with them, “their eyes were kept from recognizing him”. But later, when Jesus broke bread, blessed it and gave it to them, “their eyes were opened and they recognized him”. The ordinary became the extraordinary.
When we are in that thin place, when we experience the extraordinary in the ordinary, the divine in the simple, God is indeed shining through. Pastor Beth suggests we not only experience God’s light, but that we become it. And through us, others will also know God’s grace and light.
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