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One of the challenges of living life in an area where there aren’t many secrets is that it’s usually easiest simply not to have secrets. If you don’t want rumors, you have to live in a way where people can either see what you’re up to or where they know you so well they won’t believe anything negative.

If God is making all things new, it means that every time we work to patch up, preserve, or plant, we are working alongside the Lord of Life. God’s Gardening Glove Emporium has your size, right next to the wood glue and down the aisle from the needles and thread.

In our time, we don’t often see such dramatic signs. Or perhaps we do, and we’re just not good at publishing and believing the stories. Either way, we don’t need the proof of God’s presence in quite the same terms. The church has been established and reforming for centuries now. We know that God has blessed us for generations.

We have been living in unprecedented times for a long time now. The church navigates those times best when we are most willing to listen to each other and to God. Our leaders are best when we can be courageous and humble at the same time, like Ananias and Paul. May we all have the ears to hear what God is saying and the strength to do what God is calling us to do.

In the other readings for this year’s Easter season, we’ll get a glimpse of what’s happening in heaven through the book of Revelation. Long story short, let’s listen to these words to get a glimpse behind the veil. Let’s let them reveal to us who God is what is God’s gracious will for the universe.

As we walk together through this holiest of weeks, I invite you to pay attention to the details. Where is God speaking to you in these passages? Where will God connect with you this week, this year, this season? The stories are old, but God’s mercy is always new. Come listen together. Come worship together. Come be God’s people, saved and serving, in this day and time.

Sometimes, Christians wonder if they know enough, or if they have done enough. Have they attended worship often enough? Are they nice enough

Christ will reconcile all things to himself; in the meantime, the ministry is ours to do as best we can alongside our God.

God made us to work together. It’s a beautiful thing to see the partnerships that happen because of God’s loving will for us.