Are you doing anything special to celebrate MLK Jr. Day today?
Sermon 2/18/18 Mark 1:1-4, 9-15 Jesus in the Wilderness You’ve heard me say before that the gospel of Mark is my favorite gospel. Part of the reason I love it is because of Mark’s brevity. I don’t love that he’s short on details, exactly. I love that he seems practically breathless in getting the good news of Jesus to us, and that he seems to believe that the news is so good it isn’t even going to take very many words to convince you of his message! His frantic style strikes me as showing both how important and how convincing he believes Jesus’s message to be. But, then we arrive at a Sunday like today, and I find myself a little frustrated perhaps, or at least a little challenged by Mark. In the lectionary, the series of the first Sunday in the season of Lent always focuses on the temptation of Jesus – his time in the wilderness, where he confronts Satan, and commits to God’s path rather than the flashy alternative Satan presents. This is the fo
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Somehow, this year, it was easier to "forget" about the day. Or not forget, exactly, but to get caught up in all the excitement about everything else that is going on. Maybe it's sort of a way of honoring King to say that my thoughts all day today have not been on King at all, but on tomorrow's inauguration.
And we had to work today anyway. But, you know, my executive director sent out a nice email to all staff saying, basically, "sorry you have to work, but really, isn't working all day to help people with disabilities become fully integrated and accepted into society a better way of honoring King's dream than sleeping in late and wasting the day in front of the television?" I have to agree with him.