Abiding
2nd Sunday after Epiphany, 2026 Readings Isaiah 49.1-7 Ps 40.1-14 1 Corinthians 1.1-9 John 1.29-42 I sometimes wonder what it would take for us to really believe, and to experience for ourselves, that Jesus is the light that shines in the darkness of our world, or as John the Baptist puts it in today’s reading, the lamb of God who takes away the world’s sin? What would it take, in other words, for us to live without anxiety, experiencing the world we live in as being centred on and shaped every moment by the reality of reconciling love? And knowing deep down that because the love that created all things is capable of transforming the limitations of our lives, not even our most fearful circumstances are capable of overwhelming us or holding us captive? And I wonder about this, in part, because the fearful and violent acts we have witnessed in our own country over the last few weeks expose a deep anxiety in our national psyche, and a sense that our cohesion as a country of many fai...