Proper 28 B + Irritated into Love (ACL+ and MCL+) + 11.17.24
Irritated into Love Hebrews 10, Mark 13 St Paul’s Emmanuel, Santa Paula, and All Santos, Oxnard The Revs. Alene and Melissa Campbell-Langdell I will ask it again this week: how are you doing today? I don’t mean the automatic check-in response that we are conditioned to give one another. There’s a place for that basic level “fine” that simply says, “I don’t need you to stop and pay attention to me right now. I’m not in immediate crisis.” However, today I’m asking something more. Take a quick internal scan and note the feelings that are there. If you’re like me, there are a multitude: fatigue, anger, hope, gratitude, love, fear, grief. How about you? Anyone else care to throw out a few emotions stirring in the pot this morning? (Pause) The disciples in our reading from Mark have a few emotions of their own to add: pride, wonder, worry, shock, fear, sorrow. The disciples have been admiring the size and grandeur of the temple. And for them, this wasn’t jus