October 19, 2022

We’ve been doing a lot of funerals, baptisms, and weddings recently. It’s interesting to me that people want to experience the most meaningful moments in life in the presence of God, which the church represents.

There is a yearning for God inside each one of us. C.S. Lewis says, “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”  Don’t you feel this sometimes?

The psalmist puts it this way. “As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?” (Psalm 42: 1-2)

“Eternal Father, you gave to your incarnate Son the holy name of Jesus to be the sign of our salvation: Plant in every heart, we pray, the love of him who is the Savior of the world, our Lord Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.” (The Holy Name – BCP)