Sermon - John 1: 1-18

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The turning of the calendar year has a way of instilling an expectation of new beginnings, a promise of hope that life and present circumstances will get better. And, quite frankly, as we think of the suffering the world has experienced this past year, the horror of this pandemic, the hundreds of thousands of people who have died and will die before the pandemic is over, the millions of job losses, the businesses that have been impacted, the racial injustice and political unrest, many of us begin this year with a deep longing and yearning for renewed hope, a hope that 2021 will be better than 2020. Yes, the turning of the year has a way of offering us a sense of rekindled hope and the beginning of a new chapter in life. Our readings today also provide us with words of hope, new life, and new beginnings. Jeremiah proclaims a message of hope to people scattered and displaced in exile. Jeremiah says God will save the people, God will gather the people together and bring them back to their homeland. God will recreate God’s people and turn their mourning into joy. For each one of us, we presently feel as though we have been scattered because of this pandemic. We feel a certain kind of displacement and we deeply long to gather again. While we now have a renewed sense of hope with the development of a vaccine, Jeremiah’s words also provide us with hope of new beginnings. You see, God is the one who will ultimately gather us, bring us together again as a community of faith, recreate us as God’s very own and make us new. In fact, that has been something God has been doing from the beginning of time. We hear more about that in today’s gospel reading where we receive a word that is all about newness and new beginnnings as we hear John’s

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