Podcast Unplugged: Legacies of Love: Sowing What We Will Not Reap (LCOR 11am Luke 2:22-40, Presentation of Our Lord)

We’re a results-oriented society, and it’s often challenging to think about doing things that we can’t see to completion. 

This week we celebrated The Presentation of Our Lord, a minor feast day that commemorates the presentation of Jesus to the Temple, and Simeon and Anna were there to see him. Simeon was promised that he wouldn’t die until he saw the Messiah. Anna was a widow who had served the temple for many years following the death of her husband. Both saw Jesus and rejoiced, seeing that generations of hope and faith in the promise of Messiah had been fulfilled in their own generation! 

We have many things that we’re a part of that won’t end, but we take part in them anyway. We think of people like Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, who is prominently featured in this sermon. He joined the long and continuing work of striving for equality for all people, and speaks poignantly about the fact that, like Moses, he wouldn’t live to see the Promised Land, but that from the mountain top he can see the glory of the coming of the Lord. 

We too can see the hope of new life from the mountaintop; some of the fruit of this land is fruit we will taste, and some we will not. Even so, we follow faithfully. We share the faith faithfully, knowing that one day we’ll all get there.

****Correction***

Nunc Dimittis means “Now you are dismissing”, not “Now Lord”. I’m bad at words.

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