Sunday Readings: Isaiah 63.16-17,19; 64.2-7; Corinthians 1.3-9; Mark 13.33-37
“Stay awake, for you do not know when the owner of the house will come–in the evening, or at midnight, at cockcrow or dawn.”
Mark 13.35
Jesus’ tiny parable calls us to stay awake throughout the Church year. There are doorways all the time where we encounter one another and have opportunities to be present. Our houses and offices have doors. These are thresholds where we meet and can be awake to one another.
In dark midnight moments our fears can take us over. The urge is strong to avoid the hard. Who has not heard the cock crow and recognized I profoundly regret something I never thought I was even capable of doing? At the heart of our faith is the dawn moments, the hour of resurrection. In our faith that God raised up Jesus to new life is a spirituality that believes new life can come where relationships are dead or where leaders are asleep to people’s needs.
At what doorways are you watching for God’s coming?
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