"A Prayer to the God Who Fell..." Prop 16 B 2012
Melissa Campbell-Langdell All Saints’, Oxnard + 8.26.12 Prop 16 B (1 Kings 8:22-30, 41-43; Ps. 84; Ephesians 6:10-20; John 6:56-69) So Jesus asked the twelve, “Do you also wish to go away?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom can we go (John 6:67-68)?” To whom can we go? We come to church, and say, “How lovely is thy dwelling place,” and like Solomon we pray to God in the temple. Somehow once we know Jesus, once his God-tendrils are deeply rooted in our hearts, we realize that we have nowhere else to go. Nowhere else where we will find a home. This “To whom can we go?” Reminded me of another question I wrestled with some years ago. Sitting in a huge computer lab at the Pont í fica Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, I stared at a computer screen. Wireless was not in existence in Chile at that point and we called the World Wide Web the “World Wide Wait” because it could take five minutes to load a screen. I often tried to prac...