Shout Out Loud

 

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.