Sermons from Lyndale
Lament as Sabbath Practice
So today, at Lyndale, we all offer and participate in a time of lament as sabbath practice, grieving the violence and harm we have caused and experienced. We do this following in the form of the ancient lament psalms, such as Psalm 22, which we will read today. Psalm 22, like most lament psalms, contains three sections: a section of lament, a section of reaching out to God, and a section of thanksgiving. The service is structured around those three parts. We will read a section of Psalm 22, offer a reflection on it, and offer a sung response; we will do this twice. The third time we read a section of Psalm 22 we will respond with a ritual.
Draw the Circle Wide
Feasting is about shared abundance. Communion is about sharing and equity. Salvation and liberation are intertwined and they are communal.
The Anti-Capitalist Community of God
For me, and for others with invisible disabilities, we have this “coming out” moment often; for others, with more visible disabilities, they don’t get to decide when and who they “come out” to. But I can speak for myself: coming out about my disability has been, and continues to be, more dangerous than coming out about my queer sexuality. In communion, and the crucifixion, and the resurrection, we take time to understand that God is disabled, both because of God’s atypical, incarnate body and in the way that the world treated God. After all, the world refused to provide justice and access for a body like God’s, and, in fact, executed God for it.