What2Say2Day? Have I said how much I enjoy Wednesday night faith talks with our youth and young adults? If not, let me say it now. I really enjoy Wednesday night faith talks with our youth and young adults.
Last night we took a look at all of the readings on this week's lectionary. (In case you ever wondered what a lectionary is follow this link http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/) It was a good night, each of us sharing what the passages mean to us. We took in a lot of emotions; guilt, sadness, anger, joy, peace, and others.We also spent a good amount of time on faith and trust, trying our best to determine whether they are interchangeable in all, most, some, or no situations.
My favorite moment was when we got to the gospel reading. Luke 24:36-48 is about Jesus revealing himself to the disciples after the resurrection. It's the second week in a row we get to read a story about this revelation and there are some similarities as well as differences. When we compared the two passages we found things like doubt, fear, the showing of the hands and feet, and the words, "Peace be with you." to be in common. The differences we found were the place of the revelation (not in a locked room) and Jesus making the point that he was not a ghost.
While we were looking for more differences one of our young adults chuckled and told us that he now has a favorite quote from Jesus. In verse 41 Jesus seemingly says out of the blue, "Have you anything to eat?" We all got a chuckle out of that. Think about it, here's a man who just went through the beating of his life, death on a cross, and resurrection; he has to be hungry.
Once again we're reminded of Jesus' humanness. I can't speak for anyone but myself when I say that sometimes I forget Jesus was human while here on earth. To make things worse sometimes I put Jesus being greater than God. It's versus like this, and the chuckled remarks of our youth and young adults, that help keep me grounded and focused.
Thank you God for the teachings of Jesus the human.
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