Easter 6 Homily 2025
Easter 6 St. Alfred's Episcopal Church May 25, 2025 Opening We've been gone We've been away for a while. I know some of you noticed -- thank you. Others of you no doubt saw my facial hair and didn't recognize me. I forgive you. Of all my siblings and children, I'm the only one who doesn't readily grow facial hair. I keep trying, though, even at my age. Once when my oldest was about 3, late at night after he'd gone to bed, I shaved off the mustache and goatee I had grown. When he got up the next morning, he walked in the kitchen where I was probably drinking coffee. His face totally collapsed, and he said, "No, Daddy, put it back." I imagine Paul feeling something like my son. "Maybe I should just go back and start over." I'm thinking that as he was dealing with the dramatic twists in his life, from Pharisee to a mute thrown off his horse, healed and called to preach what he once persecuted, there had to be a time he thought eno...