To kick off the New Year we’ll be considering a series of Jesus’ parables, and how they invite us to see and live into God’s Kingdom in the messy here and now; not a distant destination, but a parallel reality that is always breaking through in glimmers and one which we have a hand in creating. We pray that it would be a blessing to you, wherever you are in your journey. (sermon begins at 01:00)

Scripture & Quotations

- Matthew 25:1-13

EMILY: It goes so fast. We don’t have time to look at one another. I didn’t realize. All that was going on in life, and we never noticed. Take me back – up the hill – to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Goodbye, world. Goodbye my beautiful town ... Mama and Papa. Goodbye to clocks ticking, and Mama’s sunflowers. And food and coffee, and new-ironed dresses, and hot baths, and sleeping and waking. Oh, Earth! You’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you…. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? I mean every, every minute? 

STAGE MANAGER: No. The saints and poets, maybe they do – some.

- Thornton Wilder, Our Town