ABOUT THIS EPISODE
One of my favourite things to do is to people watch. You know when you are in a café or at a train station, on a bus. And you just see people. People who all have their own concerns and their own lives. They are managing their families and talking to their friends, reading a book, scrolling on their phone. They are living their lives. And, as we know when people live their lives, there is great joy and deep sadness, there is stress and pain, and busyness and loneliness. We all have our own stuff, don’t we?
How will I pay that bill?
What does this diagnosis mean?
How will I manage to get everything done?
Am I raising my kids the right way?
Should I have done something differently?
What will it take to get a promotion?
What do I need to plan for someone’s birthday, or should I start thinking about Christmas gifts?
What are we doing for Christmas?
Sometimes it can feel like, with everything going on, we are just getting by. We make it through the week. We get here on a Sunday, and someone asks how we are and we say, fine.
We say, I’m here.
We say, I’m ok.
And we worship together and we learn and we feel cared for and we stop for a moment.
But by Sunday evening we begin to think about making it through to Friday night. Whether you are working or retired, whether you are busy or have lots of time – we can all feel, sometimes, like life is heavy and we are just getting by.
But I don’t think that Jesus lived as though he was just getting by. I don’t think he died and was raised to life so that I could get by. Jesus said, I came that they might have life and live it… on the weekend? No – Live it to the full.
But what does a fully lived life look like anyway?
A message by Sam Barlow
