“SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE”

What do we do with the good news of Easter morning—that God has triumphed over sin and death, that the risen Lord has appeared to us?  We run and tell someone else who needs to hear it, like the women who found the tomb empty, like the disciples on the road to Emmaus.  That’s what we do.  But how we tell the good news makes all the difference in the world?

In our Sunday morning worship Caroline Tipton “steals the show” without intending to, when she acolytes.  When Caoline walks up the aisle with her lit taper everyone gets quiet.  We experience a holy moment, maybe the most holy moment we experience in the entire worship hour.  And at the end of worship, when Caroline takes the light of Christ out to the world, we can’t help but smile.  Caroline makes our faces beam with joy.

Caroline is so focused on carrying the light of Christ.  She is careful, graceful, and deliberate.  She “expresses” the importance of her responsibility by the way she performs it.

How do we take the good news of what God has done and is doing to the world?  What if we could all be as careful and as focused and as graceful as Caroline in the way we carry the light of Christ into the world?  A child is leading us!

On a recent posting on the Upper Room “Sight Psalm” (April 3, 2025) I read these words, “May the light of God burn brightly within you and may you share that light with the world in the way only you can.”  How we carry the light of Christ into the world matters!

Thank you, Caroline!

Pastor Bill