Friends,
So we come now to the second Sunday of Easter, still wrestling with the
implications of the Resurrection, where our focus story will be of Thomas
and his doubts. As the theologian Buechner has said, “Doubts are the ants
in the pants of faith.” The sermon will be making reference to the film,
“Doubt,” which will be shown tonight in the Salons at 7 pm, or you can
easily pick it up at the local video store. And, we will be trying out
something new — at the end of worship there will be chance for a discussion
about the sermon, and about doubting; so plan to grab a cup of coffee and
pull up a chair.
This is another chance to sing a few more of the great Easter hymns, and to
hear the Choral Ensemble present two fine anthems, setting poetry (William
Blake’s and Robert Frost’s) to music. Excellent!
GLEANINGS: some thoughts about having questions, that come from the German
poet Rilke’s writing, “Letters to a Young Poet”:
… have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart
and … try to cherish the questions themselves, like closed
rooms and like books written in a very strange tongue. Do not search now
for the answers, which cannot be given you because you could
not live them. It is a matter of living everything. Live the questions
now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it,
one distant day, live right into the answer.