Crazy Socks Anyone?
This Friday is Homecoming at Holy Spirit’s school…which means it is SPIRIT WEEK!! Every day my kiddos have a different clothing theme. It was especially fun to see all the “crazy socks” and “crazy hats” as we gathered on the field yesterday for a school Eucharist service outside. Also, I’d be remiss to not mention how fun it was to send them both in University of Georgia gear on Tuesday which was sports team spirit day (go Dawgs!).
The season after the Epiphany is a perfect time for spirit clothing. The wise men from the east appear dressed in what we have imagined to be royal clothing (and the idea of the puffy hats is great for our pageant). We have John the Baptist out in the wilderness dressed in camel hair and eating wild honey and locusts. You can imagine everyone getting dressed up for the wedding in Cana of Galilee at which Jesus does his first miracle of changing water into wine. We will ultimately reach the final Sunday in this season where Jesus is up on the mountain with some of his friends and he is transfigured and his clothes become dazzling white.
This past Sunday, we celebrated a different kind of clothing as we baptized two little ones into the Church. As we stood before the congregation, the parents and Godparents committed to help these children grow into the full stature of Christ. We often literally describe this life of faith as putting on the righteousness of God or the armor of light. We ask to be clothed in God’s grace and love and we are baptized in God’s triune name which forevermore supersedes our own making a proclamation of where our hope lies. I pray that this time of the year is its own sort of spirit week for you so that you may know that God sees you in the image that God has given you – His beloved whom He has redeemed, saved, and claimed as His own.
We love you and God loves you,
Josh Condon+