Today, of all the days of the year, is when we think and
feel and tell the Good News. Today we are celebrating the irrepressibility of
love, joy, peace and all the other fruits; of faith and hope; of life in all
its fullness, overcoming all obstacles. Truly, love will come again like wheat
that springs up green; not only love but joy and life. This is the key to the
conclusion of Mark’s Gospel. That we are here celebrating today is evidence
that love can be battered, bruised, even thought to have been killed, but that
is an illusion.
Love cannot and will never be destroyed. It can be ignored,
suppressed, denied but still it keeps on springing back. Love has been largely
overlooked as the source of all good. To show love has even been considered a
weakness. But love will be expressed. When it could not be spoken of openly for
cultural reasons, it has been shown covertly. One doesn’t have to watch many
episodes of the Antiques Road Show, to see and hear them talk about the
language of love being powerfully expressed symbolically in flowers and
jewellery.
Love is what happened on the first Easter day. It had, of
course been happening since the beginning of time. Creation itself was the
first act of love and it is believed to have gone off with quite a bang!
Rev Julianne Parker
(for full sermon see sermons page)
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