last-epiphany-2021.md
Last Epiphany 2021 St. Paul’s Monroe, NC Opening Today we mark the end of a church season, the season of epiphany. Many images and memories pass by me as I reflect on scripture passages for this day. Perhaps most of all I reflect on how these things seem more important to clergy types then to ordinary real people. Seasons come and go. I first really thought about seasons when I moved to Hawaii and early on learned that everything I had known about seasons did not apply. We come to the end of a church season. Our altered life in the time of pandemic and in the time of wounded leaders has gone on for many seasons now. The seasons come and go and still we are here. Yes we are here. No question that today’s scripture readings confront us with vivid images. Slideshow asking, “How do we picture this? Imagine this?” My earliest memory as an Episcopalian is of the candles being lit on the feast of the presentation, Candlemas. Just a few short weeks after that comes the last Sunday of Ep...