Shelley Bloomer - February 8, 2015
Who is this God Speaking
We imagine that to find God, we have to leave our everyday lives – carve out special time or make it to church on Sundays. God, it seems, can only be found outside our lives. But in Jesus, God reveals himself to be the God of the everyday. The God of the hustle and bustle, the God of the trivial and the important. To hear this God, we don’t need to stop our lives. We only need to start.
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Like many of use, I’ve used my pandemic time to experiment in the kitchen. There’s always been one thing I’ve wanted to make that I stayed away from because it was so intimidating – fresh pasta.
But hey, if you can’t take a risk during a pandemic, when are you gonna do it? It turns out it’s not as hard as I thought… though it takes some attention. And it does help if you’ve got a mixer (thanks to my homie Sue – this one belongs to her). Fresh pasta is just four ingredients – flour, eggs, oil and salt. You put it in and let it run for about 10 minutes (or knead it by hand).
We’re going to talk about good and evil today, and I thought pasta would be a helpful metaphor. After all, if I were to tell you in this moment I’ve made some good pasta for you – you’d rightly go… uh… where?
But, in my defense, you couldn’t call it bad pasta either. Because right now, it’s just a bunch of ingredients in a bowl, getting mixed. It’s neither good nor bad yet. It’s just… potential. (Hopefully potential deliciousness.)
I want to suggest that we consider good and evil in much the same way – God has created a world, inviting us to become out of chaos. And what’s before us is the question: Will we join God in moving the world toward peace (which of course includes delicious pasta) or will we choose to invite chaos into the world, little by little?
