What Will Shake Us? - The Rev. Melanie W. J. Slane

Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

Every morning at my son's Montessori school in the Cincinnati public school district, they take two minutes to center themselves to begin a new day. A chance to embrace their school motto, peace, love, and PRM. Every child is given the opportunity to pray in their own way at school and no one is excluded from this time of daily reflection, I decided to stay with the teachers there in that place of prayer and together we begged God, "Please do not let this be their last day."... My seven-year-old son, and your seven-year-old son, and your seven-year-old grandson, and your seven-year-old niece, and your seven-year-old neighbor. They are currently being taught. They are learning from our society that if they want to be saved, that they need to turn off the lights, get low, barricade the doors, stay silent. And sacrifice themselves so that gun manufacturers can continue to make tons of money off of people's anxious fears of home invasion or worse, the pleasure at the sport of murder. What must we do to be saved? What will shake us? What is our foundation? And will we believe on the Lord Jesus who came that we might have life and might have it more abundantly?...