SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, May 17, 2020

Dear Friends in Christ –

This week I received a note, actually, an email from someone I’ve never met. She and her husband own the house to which we vacate for a week each summer. Over the years we’ve come to know styles, tastes, quirks; have discovered a bit more behind the family pictures that are left; and now I’m told that she is a Presbyterian!

In one of the serendipitous moments I attribute to our ubiquitous God, Sandy tells me that once she learned what I did, she has listened to our services and discovered a shared appreciation of music, art, place and faith.

In response to her lovely note, I expressed the hope that we would soon meet and that with shoulders back and chin to the wind we’ll navigate these times.

She replied with a lovely note that included this YouTube link. It’s a performance of "You’ll Never Walk Alone". But as can only be done these days, it is a recording of three hundred voices and instrumentalists from around the world singing and playing a piece that is perfect for these times.

Jesus, in the darkest, most uncertain moment, promised his friends that he would always be with them. Jesus speaks to us through scripture, through crises, through the human voice gathered from the corners of the earth. Listen. Weep and be glad.

See you Sunday!