Ernest Hemmingway is quoted as saying, “We are all broken. That is how the light gets in”. Pastor Beth recounts her own journey as a young pastor, unable to hear God’s voice as she madly worked to become the ideal and perfect pastor. Her spiritual director asked her to quietly contemplate the blessing of God’s love totally apart from anything that she did or didn’t do. This was a hard lesson for her and it is also for all of us.
We all want unconditional love, but we feel God can’t love us because
• our lives are a total mess of past mistakes
• we feel we are unlovable
This sermon is, once again a reassurance of God’s unfailing love to us – NO MATTER WHAT!