God is God, and “loves all creation equally and desires justice for all.” In love, God calls the prophet to stand apart and speak to the powers a word telling them that they must change.

 “Why... in our justice work... does it always feel like we are beginning again?” Because the powers never relent. But here’s the good news. Neither does God. God never relents in pressing on toward the freedom and thriving of all people.

As part of our series Always We Begin Again, we considered the beginning of each of the four gospels.  The gospels tell the good news of Jesus in a bright array of voices, including ours.

God builds into creation a rhythm of creative action, followed by rest, renewal, and restoration.

At Pentecost, the Spirit fills everyone gathered with a spirit of boldness, a spirit of generosity, and a spirit of real and lasting community.

In the forty days leading up to the Ascension, Jesus and the disciples had the chance to say good-bye – part of the aliveness that they experience in Resurrection. In Resurrection, no good-bye is ever final.

The Apostle Paul walks around Athens and notices a temple to “An Unknown God.” The God who is beyond our knowing, reaches out to us, in the Risen Christ, and is close at hand.

When we pause to think, reflect, and feel, life begins to speak.

In the days after Resurrection and Pentecost, the community had everything in common, sold what they had, and gave to any as they had need. The Resurrection experience of radical sharing in community is alive with possibility.