Given to Weeping and Laughter

We remember our beloved saints who have passed on by reflecting on Jesus’ blessing, spoken to those who grieve: You shall laugh. And Jesus’ woe, delivered to those who laugh: You shall grieve. We are each one of us both, of course - those who laugh and those who grieve. Often all at the same time. And even when we experience a (brief) reprieve from one or the other, we are given to one another in community to bear the joys and sorrows of one another.

Sermon begins at minute 3:27

Scripture: 1 Kings 5:1-5; 8:1-13

Music: Sally Ann Morris  © 1998 GIA Publications, Inc.

Text: Thomas Troeger © Oxford University Press Inc. 2002. 

Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Resources

• This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers, Lillian Daniel and Martin B. Copenhaver
• “All Saints” prayer, by Janet Morley, All Desires Known (1988), 148.
• Photo: A couple of SMC saints - Chuck & Larry