Shout Out Loud
February 5, 2023
Fifth Sunday After Epiphany
Isaiah 58:1-12 ; I Corinthians 2:1-16; Matthew 5:13-20
We are the light of the world, the justice people, the eyes of God. We discovered the little way. God is near, at the bus stop, at the airport, at the train station, in our heart.
God speaks, share your bread with the hungry. Lift up the broken, open the hand to the oppressed.
Learn how to forgive, in our weakness. Find the tool beyond empire and power. Look for mother and father nurture.
Jesus speaks, “You are the salt of earth” in the gospel of humility. Let your light shine. See the way forward, emancipation. Ode to joy in the valley of our fears.
We are the light of the world. Shout out loud. Share your bread with the hungry. Christ comes in our weakness. Christ speak, you are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world.
There is hope. Shout out loud. Christ speak, you have strength in weakness.
Shout out loud. There is fulmination in adoration. We hear the story of the once broken in Vietnam and Cambodia.
Let your light break forth like the dawn and your healing shall quickly appear. God speaks, there are opportunities to love again.
Jesus speaks, I have come to fulfill the law. What now?
We are the light of the world. Shout out loud. Share your bread with the hungry. Christ comes in our weakness. Christ speaks, you are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the the world.
We hear animals are the spiritual teachers. Learn again from the Apopo rats who demined the land to make it safe again in Cambodia.
We are the light of the world
Shout out loud
We are the light of the world
Share bread
We are the light of the world
In our weakness
We are the light of the world
The salt of the earth
We are the light of the world
You are light
We are the light of the world
Shoot in the dark
Shout loud
Be infinite love
Shout out loud
We are the light of the world
In this time
The midway between winter solstice and spring equinox
We are the light of the world
We are the gift of love
The Gift of Love
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.