Sunday Readings: Isaiah 61.1-2,10-11; 1 Thessalonians 5.16-24; John 1.6-8, 19-28
“Among you stands one whom you do not know.”
John 1.26
John the Baptist refuses to apply people’s expectations of the messiah to himself. He anticipates one greater than he is coming. He testifies to the light. He insists that “Among you stands one whom you do not know.” The words come down the centuries to haunt and taunt us into recognizing where we see Jesus among us.
Ours is the task of recognizing God at work in the hardest of all places to see–in ourselves, in our passion for justice, in the events of our history, in our own unrelenting efforts to hold our families and communities together. We live in an unfinished drama and unfolding mystery that is the Spirit of God’s life-giving presence with us.
To what light do you testify in your unrelenting struggles?
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