Sermon - 2/27/22

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Luke 9:28-43; Transfiguration C; 2/27/22 Pastor Ellen Schoepf I love this little story Rev. Dr. Robert Sims shares about a little boy and his wagon. Sims writes: A little boy was riding his wagon along the sidewalk. Suddenly, one of the wheels fell off the wagon. The little boy jumped out of the wagon and said, “I’ll be damned!” A minister happened to be walking by, and he said, “Son, you ought not use words like that! That’s a bad word. When something happens, just say, ‘Praise the Lord,’ and everything will be all right.” So, the little boy grumbled, put the wheel back on the wagon and started on down the sidewalk. About ten yards farther, the wheel fell off again. The little boy said, “Praise the Lord!” Suddenly, the wheel jumped up off the ground and put itself right back on the wagon. The minister saw it all and exclaimed, “I’ll be damned.” Sims goes on to say, “We are a lot like that minister. We believe in God’s miraculous, glorious, transformative power; we just don’t expect it to happen to us.” I think Pastor Sims’ assessment is quite accurate. I think most of us are aware in the depth of our being that we need God. At times, I think we often long for a sign of God’s presence to us. Yet, we don’t often recognize God’s presence to us in the ordinary stuff of life, in our ordinary daily experiences. We often do not trust God’s presence to us as we face ambiguity and an uncertain future. Quite frankly, it is hard to trust God’s presence as the world faces an uncertain future, as we see Ukraine ruthlessly invaded by a corrupt, evil, authoritarian power. It is hard to trust God’s presence as we watch an unnecessary, shameful war of

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