Who Are You Looking For?
April 8, 2007 -Sunday at 4
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
~ Eugene Ionesco
All too often we expect all the answers from our faith tradition. Yet while it has
been recorded that Jesus was asked 183 questions in the Gospels, he only answered three of these directly.
Jesus was great at asking questions, and the questions he asked were
good questions- questions that invariably led people to places where
transformation was possible. In his book, "The Questions of Jesus",
John Dear, a Jesuit Priest, says, "Jesus leads us into liminal, and
therefore transformative space, much more than taking us into any
moral high ground of immediate certitude or ego superiority. He
subverts up front the cultural or theological assumptions that we are
eventually going to have to face anyway. He leaves us betwixt and
between, where God and grace can get at us, and where we are not at
all in control."
Our journey to Easter has been through questions, and so it's fitting
that on Easter Day we conclude with the question a "gardener" asked
Mary in the garden outside of the tomb:
"Who Are You Looking For?"
Who are YOU looking for?
Who is YOUR Jesus?
Sunday at 4 pm
at the Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalist Meeting House
the conversation continues.
I hope to see you there. :)
Shalom,
Emma