Dear Ones
Yesterday’s featured text was the story of how Isaac got a wife. Or, how Rebekah got a husband. Or, perhaps better, how a servant of Abraham (Isaac’s father) managed to get Laban (Rebekah’s brother) and their mother to agree to the arrangement.
Follow that?
The short version is that in the days of Abraham, this whole relational thing took a village.
Life takes a village. Knowing there are people who will be there for you at a moment’s notice is an incredible thing. It’s one of the things that is part of this congregation’s DNA. We are interdependent to the point of being almost counter-cultural.
This past weekend we celebrated 250 years of our nation’s Independence. It’s important to remember that the fight for Independence was to end our relationship with a tyrannical power – it was not to become independent from one another. Severing ties from England meant that we could choose a democracy that held freedom and liberty as primary values, but at the same time, those original framers recognized our interconnectedness in calling for us to strive for “a more perfect union.”
And so, let us celebrate our nation’s Independence while remembering how each of us is connected to the other. The second part of the Great Commandment certainly endorses the latter!
I give thanks to God for both!
Blessings –
Pastor Karen