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On Sunday, a woman invited to speak at Grace Chapel gave a sermon, and today’s topic is the “Sunday scaries” or “transitions.”
Here is the transcript for a two-minute segment of today’s sermon, italicized below.
So, what’s the remedy for the Sunday scaries? Come and eat. Slow down. Be with me, Jesus says. Go to the beach or the lake. Be still. Scream. Listen to a song that stirs your soul. Cook some food. Eat a slow meal with friends or family. Ordinary, mundane acts can be a place of filling and connecting and commissioning. Resisting the urge to numb or scroll or compare or fight or flight or just retreat to the familiar or work your way out of it. Listen for the voice of Jesus on the shore, however mysteriously it may show up. The invitation that is always before us is to be filled, to be nourished, to be made whole, even if only for a moment. That’s what this breakfast invitation is demonstrating. It’s a reminder to the disciples of what Jesus has been showing all along, that their mission is a mission of love, presence, and in this moment, they aren’t strapped with a twelve-part strategy plan. They don’t have to make up for their failings or shortcomings. ‘Come have breakfast,’ he says. A few verses later, in the chapter, Jesus says, ‘Feed my sheep’, meaning, ‘As I have fed you, feed others. As I have loved you, love others. As I have been with you, be with others.’ Share the message of the good news that God is a God of love, and we turn to God when cast our net on the other side, when we lean not on our own ability to do but follow the love and guidance and provision of God.
Today, she used “Sunday scaries” to describe two regularly recurring transitions that can be hard for many people: 1) the transition from Sunday to Monday (end of the weekend), 2) the transition from August to September, the end of summer. To this, she brings up the verse where Jesus reminds his disciples, “You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it.”
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