You all are a part of God’s work every time you show hospitality, you create something beautiful and new, every time you guide the gifts that are brought in or take care of this house of worship and love.
And that is what Jesus came to show us and teach us: how to love. Jesus’ very birth and life on earth was out of God’s love for the world. Jesus, who didn’t label which people deserved love and which didn’t, but welcomed, healed, and served all. Jesus, who out of such wondrous love for God and for us, gave his life on the cross, so we could all know God’s love which neither death nor life can separate us from. Everything Jesus did was to show us how beautiful love truly is. He wanted us to know that we are loved and he wanted us to pass that love on.
God made you because the world is better simply by you existing, simply by you being unlike anyone else.
All around us is evidence of God calling us to generosity, to hospitality, to love and compassion. The problem is not that the message isn’t being told.