How do you answer this question? I’ve loved seeing all of the answers as they have been added to the bulletin board in the hallway over the last few weeks.
Here are a few of them…your favorite blanket, great mystery, the ocean, my best friend, faithful, a mountain.
Make sure to take a few minutes to add yours this weekend. There are so many ways to describe God, I had a hard time choosing just one. But isn’t that the point?
Our hope is that this worship series has opened your heart and your imagination to consider God in even more expansive ways. We catch glimpses in each of the metaphors that we use to describe God. Some of the metaphors seem comfortable and reassuring to us. God is love, peace, hope. Others aren’t quite as comfortable, even confronting or confusing. But when we are willing to sit with them, they help to stretch us so that we don’t try to limit God to just our experience and comfort level.
God is both known to us as a close source of comfort and refuge, and mysteriously beyond us, beaconing us to step out and to experience the fullness of who God is, leading us past what we know into a place of faith.
This week we will be reflecting on the ways that God is like a mystery.
Don’t you love a good mystery? They make for great summer reading and movie watching.
Mysteries draw us into the story. They include us a part of the adventure and the solving of a puzzle or problem. They lead to places that are unexpected and challenging. And a good mystery finishes with a celebration of what has been learned, discovered, and set right again.
God and the life of faith that God invites us into is like that, isn’t it? Faith invites us to follow a path of discovery of who God is that is exciting and challenging, and continues to offer us new insight and wisdom. I look forward to reflecting on I Kings 19:11-13 and Galatians 5:22-23 with you as we consider how God is like a mystery.
Blessings!
Pastor Suzanne