Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon: Creation Tide 3: Jesus, The Caring Gardener of Our Lives
We continue this season of Creation Tide with another insightful sermon from Tim. From our scripture in John chapter 20: (from the First Nations Version, An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament.)
"Early on the first day of the week, Strong Tears (Mary) from Tower of Creator’s High Lodge (Magala) came to the burial cave while it was still dark. She saw the stone was moved…
(Later, she went back to the garden.)
Her heart was on the ground as she stood outside the cave, weeping. As the tears ran down her face, she looked inside. There she saw two spirit-messengers dressed in white. They were sitting, one at the head, the other at the feet, of where the body of Creator Sets Free (Jesus) had once lain.
They looked at her and said, “Honored woman, why do you weep?”
“My Wisdomkeeper is gone,” she answered, “and I do not know where they have taken him.”
She turned around to see a man standing behind her. It was Creator Sets Free (Jesus), but she did not recognize him.
“Honored woman, why the tears?” he said to her. “Who are you looking for?”
She thought he was the keeper of the garden, so she said, “If you have carried him away, tell me where, and I will find him.”
“Strong Tears (Mary),” he said to her (in a soft and kind voice.)
“Rabboni!” she said, meaning Wisdom-keeper…
Strong Tears (Mary) then went and found the followers of Creator Sets Free (Jesus) and said, “I have seen our Wisdom-keeper!”
She then told them everything she had heard from him."
Creation Tide 3:
As we continue the story of growing together in the Garden of God's Goodness, is it legitimate to say that we are a Garden of God's Goodness, and that Jesus is at the center of it?
Where does the story of Jesus begin?
Ancient Christians would start Jesus' story at his baptism. When Jesus is baptized he is going "into the water", and a voice from heaven speaks, "this is my beloved son with whom I am well pleased". It's a moment where the whole of creation is being reset, and we are told as soon as he came up from the baptism, the "Spirit drove him into the wilderness". Jesus is the second Adam, or Adam again. Jesus is there in the wilderness, with the creation, the wild, the beasts, the creation. He is also fasting, intentionally identifying with us as a human. Then, even as Satan comes to tempt Adam in the Garden of Eden, he now comes to tempt Jesus (the second Adam) in the wilderness, to try and derail the "reset" of creation that God is doing through Jesus Christ.
We pray that you would invite Jesus to work the soil of your inner self.
History of Creation Tide: The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (Eastern Orthodox) proposed in 1989 that September 1st (the first day of the Orthodox Church year) should be observed as a day “of protection of the natural environment”.
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