Last week I wrote about home and asked where your home is. My sermon this week built on that theme. The Gospel reading for the 3rd Sunday after
Trinity has the Gospel reading from Luke 15 on the parable of the lost coin and
the lost sheep (note at churches here in P.E.I. we are following the Book of
Common Praise and not the Revised Common Lectionary).
In my sermon I propose that we are all searching for our
true home which is reclaiming our relationship with God or as it is stated in the
principles of A.A. a power greater than ourselves. We often don’t know what it is that we are
missing in our lives until we experience it or at least get a hint of what is
possible. Paul says in 1 Corinthians, “For
now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part;
but then shall I know even as also I am known”. We are truly only glimpsing
through a glass darkly what that relationship will be like.
As I noted last week when I first truly experienced Anglican
worship for the first time I knew I had come home. There have been experiences of Anglican
worship since then which haven’t always lived up to the promise of that first
experience. However, I know without a
doubt that the Anglican Church is my religious home.
What that first experience and subsequent ones have given me
is a glimpse of what my faith enables me to know that ultimate relationship
will be like. In my book, The Ego and
the Bible, I interpret the myth of the biblical creation story which as a mythopoeic
effort to understand our separation from God.
We no longer walk with God in the cool of the evening. We have been expelled from or as I like to
say strongly encouraged by God to leave our earthly paradise. We were in a preconscious state of union with
God. However, God gave us the gift of consciousness
represented by the apple from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The journey into consciousness and to wholeness one in which
we travel towards that re-union with God which will, I believe, occur when our
time on this earth has run its course.
In in meantime I hope that the glimpse through the glass that we each experience
may become a little less dark.
Blessings.
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