The Sixth Sunday of Easter Meditation-The Rev Melanie Lemburg (for 8 and 11:30 am)
The Rev. Melanie Dickson Lemburg The Sixth Sunday after Easter-Year B May 6, 2024 In his long-goodbye to his disciples, in this second half of the Easter season where we focus on Jesus’s teachings around what intimacy with God looks like, Jesus says, “I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.” Part of Jesus’s final blessing or wish for us is joy. So I want us to reflect on joy for a few minutes here. And I’ll give you time to ponder the questions I ask. How do you define joy? When’s the last time you experienced joy? What did joy feel like in your body? Is Jesus’s joy different from ours? How? Our Wednesday healing service community reflected on these questions, and they observed that joy often bubbles up in them through connections with other people, God, or nature. It is often a brief feeling of effervescence, and it is o