Finding My Way on Skye

It’s taken me a little time to figure out how to post this. Here is a sermon preached on Sunday 19th April at St Columba’s church, in Portree. The main things I said are:

• The strangeness of the Resurrection appearances – fleeting and ambiguous
• How our own Christian spirituality is often like that too – not always emotionally charged or impressive. This is normal; a feature, not a bug.
• In the story, what changed everything for the disciples was not so much a mystical experience as coming to understand. Humans need to understand, we need meaning. Let’s not underestimate the importance of understanding our faith and being able to give a reasonable account of it.
• And then, the other thing that changed everything was the very ordinary experience of sitting down to a meal. When we emphasise sacrament, this is not to emphasise ritual but rather that God comes to us in ordinary things. In bread, water, wine or oil… In the daily round and common task.