When we say that God is love or, God is light, or in today’s message, God is us. We may not necessarily mean that these nouns are being equated to God. Rather, these nouns or verbs are examples of the presence of God.

One month from today, May 21, BREAD will rise and meet at the fairgrounds for our largest gathering of the year, the Nehemiah Action.  We call this the Nehemiah Action because it is based on a story from the biblical book of Nehemiah.

These are relatively small things on the macro-economic scale, but there’s something beautiful about the smallness of mutual aid.  When the twelve apostles gave their blessing to Steven and the other six, they weren’t charged with restructuring the economy of the Roman Empire.  They were charged with seeing that those in their own community, fellow-Jesus followers, were cared for.  They were charged with collecting the gifts of God

This “working out of our salvation” day-by-day can be hard work, and we need reminders that this hard work is good work, that we are caught up in and connected with something greater than we can think or imagine. We need glimpses of transcendence to break open our imaginations and leave us wondering, beyond simple answers, beyond understanding, beyond 12-point plans and tidy social boundaries.