Word of the day, for yesterday

Like many of you, I spent yesterday torn between my computer and my phone as I followed the unfolding events at our Nation's Capital.

There are so many words that we could use to attempt to sum up the day but the word that is running around my own mind, really stretches much broader than yesterday or Washington DC. The word in my mind, on my heart is fragile.

Nearly 44 weeks into the Covid 19 pandemic {that would be a United States timeline}, we have a new awareness about how fragile health and wellness and helathcare can be.

Peace, always fragile but yesterday was a painful {that would have been another good word for consideration} reminder about how easy it is to call upon or unleash chaos.

Democracy is fragile.

Relationships can be fragile, especially when we are more interested in being right than being in relationship.

Trust can be fragile.

We have been living under various degrees of trauma for long enough that even our own equilibrium can feel fragile.

On Sunday we again hear the story of Jesus' baptism. It is a day that we will think together about our own baptisms and what was unleashed in those events. And while we do that, we will wade into water and Word and Spirit that is as far from fragile as we can possibly venture.

Into a fragile world, to fragile humans, God comes and God speaks words of love and affirmation and therein, God carries God's beloved from fragility to hope.

Pastor Leah