Message: "Everything in Between: Proximity Matters" Rev. Paul Barrett
 
Introduction: “Everything in Between” is our guiding theme this Lent. This theme is an invitation to navigate the polarities in our lives with more faith, intention, and openness to be transformed. In doing so, we might begin to see a full spectrum and find that God is present in between. Listen now to a reading from the Gospel of Luke, chapter 13, verses 1 through 9. Reading: At that very time there were some present who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as they did. Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Jerusalem? No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish just as they did.” Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the man working the vineyard, ‘See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?’ He replied, ‘Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it. If it bears fruit next year, well and good, but if not, you can cut it down.’ ”

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