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Reflecting on Worship March 10, 2013
(…Taking the message with you.)
“You can’t go back.” It’s hard thing to learn. Picking up the pieces of a painful experience is always a challenge, but we can’t really go back to the way things were. I think that is what the Humpty Dumpty poem of childhood is all about. It is wasted energy to try and rebuild the past or to model the present after some imaginary idea time.
The good news is, although we can’t go back, we can always go forward. I like to say it this way, “home is always ahead of you.” Which is to say that finding ourselves; discovering our best expression of belonging, discovering that place where we can thrive – is always before us. And we can always come home. Coming home is the gift of welcoming people into our lives for blessing and encouragement and celebration. Coming home is making new friends, renewing old ties and gladly welcoming people into our hearts and into our homes. All these things are part of the work of moving forward and coming home.
The Prodigal Son struggled to come home but if you will notice, his older brother has almost as much work to do before he will be able to really be at home. Where in our lives is there work to be done so that we too may come, or be at home with God’s love in our lives?