Sermons
Faith is not about getting it all right, faith is about taking the journey, knowing that we can’t fully understand and know everything, at least not during this mortal life. As St. James says in the Epistle today, we all make mistakes. As St. Paul says elsewhere, we see through a glass darkly, we see through a mirror dimly. It is impossible for us to understand it all, to get it all right. It is impossible for us to be perfect.
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I am fascinated by the power of names. Adam gave names to all the animals, and whatever he called a thing, that was its name. Naming is about understanding things, classifying them into groups that have some kind of meaning in our world view, a mystical, almost magical ability that we human beings all have.
The epiphanies continue this week. But what is striking about the epiphany we have in the beginning of today’s Gospel is that it is not a dramatic moment. It’s a rather subtle and private moment. Jesus enters into the house of Simon Peter and Andrew where Simon Peter’s mother in law is sick with a fever.
