Broken. Love.
This is a portion of the homily I preached the Sunday after the election in 2016. I've pulled it up now for the RevGalBlogPals weekly essay "The Pastoral is Political" for which I am the author this week. I was afraid that Sunday in 2016, as were many people I know. I am even more afraid now, as the fears I had then are being realized in a loss of the Christian values I hold most dear - justice and mercy, loving my neighbor as myself, and respecting the dignity of every human being. Here is what I said that morning, which was preached full of emotion, with tears in my eyes, and was received with a resounding applause. It isn’t much of sermon, really, but it spoke to people that morning. I’ve added a few notes, which are in italics. The incarnation, the birth of God in the life of Jesus, the love of God manifest in human flesh, is a sign for us that God will act in and through human beings. God acted in and through Jesus. God acted in and through the early C