At our Confirmation retreat last week we talked about our baptismal promises and the gifts they can be to others as well as ourselves.
One of the baptismal promises (which those at our 10:30am service heard last week at Harrison Louie Wright’s baptism and those at the 9:00am service will hear next week at Patrick Francis Murray’s baptism) is “Proclaim the good news of God in Christ through word and deed.”
What is good news to you? What is good news to your neighbors?
Over and over again, I’m struck by the realization that for many of us, it’s hard to believe, but the good news of God in Christ is simply that we are good enough; that God delights in us as we are; that there’s nothing we should do to be more acceptable/more loved by God and there’s nothing we have done that would make us less acceptable/less loved by God.
So on Saturday morning, just before noon, our Confirmation youth stood outside of church and held up signs of affirmation: “Yay, You!”; “You rock!”; “It will be okay”; “Breathe…”; “You’re awesome!”.
We got a lot of honks, thumbs up, and smiles.
Proclaiming the good news isn’t hard…but sad to say, it seems quite rare.
You are good enough as you are. God delights in you. Yay, you!
In Christ,
Pastor Jen