http://seattleunity.org — In this week’s Easter Sunday sermon—“Crossing the Threshold," Rev. Karen Lindvig begins a month of emphasis on thresholds within the 2018 Annual theme of developing ones Inner Pilgrimage. Relating the origins of Easter in history and the events surrounding it in scripture, Karen reminds us of key definitions, recounts Easter events, and asks important questions. She explores the historical origin of Easter; retells the Easter Jesus story of descent and resurrection from scripture; and does a deep dive into the meaning of thresholds, including biological metamorphosis. She celebrates what the Jesus story exemplifies, including listing key thresholds he crossed. Then Rev. Karen explores important thresholds in our lives when we may have, or will in the future, descend and rise up, go into some mysterious underworld and come out, through a threshold of change, into new capacities, new forms of consciousness, an expanded mind or reconnected soul, and more. She concludes with a message for dealing with the threshold each of us may encounter in our life.
Key quotations related to this sermon:
Matthew 28:1-10:
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.” So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”
Charles Fillmore:
“Jesus brought his body under the mastery of his mind. We must rise to the conscious realization that every thought of mind, every atom of body, every molecule of being, every function of nature, and every force is divine, and that all of these do and shall vibrate to the harmonies of Spirit. This is the resurrection of man, there is no other.”
Ferris Jabr, writing in Scientific American:
“First, the caterpillar digests itself, releasing enzymes to dissolve all of its tissues. If you were to cut open a cocoon or chrysalis at just the right time, caterpillar soup would ooze out. But the contents of the pupa are not entirely an amorphous mess. Certain highly organized groups of cells known as imaginal discs survive the digestive process. Before hatching, when a caterpillar is still developing inside its egg, it grows an imaginal disc for each of the adult body parts.
“Once a caterpillar has disintegrated all of its tissues except for the imaginal discs, those discs use the protein-rich soup all around them to fuel the rapid cell division required to form the wings, etc.
“When we begin to cross the threshold, we are confronted with the greatness of our unknowing. We are called to recognize that we do not know what the future brings.”
Christine Valters Paintner:
“Thresholds are potent places, full of the power of possibility. We launch into a liminal space where time seems to shift, and things do not necessarily move along as expected.”
Rumi
“A voice comes to your soul saying, Life your foot, Cross over. Move into emptiness of questions and answer and question.”
Key questions related to this sermon:
What are the thresholds of your own life?
Which thresholds are calling you to cross but feel difficult to face or challenging to imagine?
What is your favorite form of self-numbing that takes your awareness away from what is happening both within and without?
At what threshold are you now standing?
These questions call us to surrender to something much bigger and more meaningful, even as it calls us away from familiar patterns.
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