April 25, 2022

“Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.” (John 20:31)

I wonder what those other signs were. Signs = miracles in the Gospel of John. Healings? Other weather events, like the stilling of the storm? 

I can tell you one thing. Miracles still happen, because your life is a miracle. As Edgar tell his father, King Lear, after the blind King believes that he has leapt from a cliff, yet finds himself awake and alive: “Speak yet again, thy life is a miracle.” Your forgiveness, the taste of a strawberry, the privilege of watching a saucy robin strutting about in the rain, the sip of communion wine while you are kneeling, that anyone at all gives a hoot about you – it’s all a miracle.

“Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ's Body may show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Second Sunday of Easter – BCP)