Canceled Service Evokes Conference Call

January 24, 2016

Third Sunday after Epiphany

          The regular Seekers service for this Sunday was canceled due to a blizzard. Twelve Seekers gathered via conference call. After some informal sharing, they joined in prayer and heard a reading of “Filled with Power” a reflection on the Gospel lection for this Sunday by Kayla McClurg and originally published on inward/outward.The full text of Kayla’s reflection follows..

Filled With Power

Kayla McClurg

Today he reads Isaiah’s words, which echo his own growing sense of call. He seems to hear it more clearly himself—“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Jesus does not self-select a scripture to fit the calling he wants to have; he reads what he is given to read, just as he responds to it in the way he is given to respond. Being filled with the power of the Spirit means he listens as though for the first time, open to what new message he hears now, in this time and place. Not in order to be more like Isaiah, but to become more and more himself.