Nearness

My generation has felt far away from God.  It has been customary to ponder the absence of God.  Why do bad things happen to good people?  Where is God when it hurts?  These and other such questions have been discussed and discussed.  We were the ones who announced the death of God and at the same time we pushed His name out of the public square.  We forsook prayer in school and civic meetings.

Yes all of this talk is foreign to us at St. Paul’s.  We are countercultural.  Ours is a faith that is robust – even intense.  It is as though we have pondered the words of Goethe who urged that the ministers of his day should proclaim the truth and not their doubts – he had enough of those of his own!

 

Here we know Christ and make Him known.  Jesus Christ and His kingdom are very near to us.  Indeed, we are in Him and He is in us!  The season of Advent, which begins today, announces the nearness of the Kingdom of God.  In Advent, we believe that Jesus is coming soon.  I encourage you to prepare yourself.

Your brother in Christ,

Christopher

The Rev. Christopher P. Leighton

Rector