At Home With Flat Jesus

04/23/2020

We are Christ’s hands and feet in the world, and I was delighted that the kids in the Ball family are showing Christ’s love by using their hands to make cookies and their feet to deliver them to people’s doors, including mine! Thanks for sharing the sweetness!

03/24/2020

Watching the Sunday worship service from the Washington National Cathedral was very moving. Instead of trying to hide the emptiness of the Cathedral during the pandemic, that emptiness was incorporated into the worship, with the camera lingering over row after row of empty pews, as well as the lofty heights of the columns, in which we saw “lights directed through the coloured panes of windows, and light reflected from the polished stone” as T.S. Eliot says. The few people leading the service were carefully spaced apart from each other, and it gave me a sense that we don’t need to fill every space with Stuff. That God is present in the emptiness of the holy space. The music, the prayers, and the excellent sermon by Washington Bishop Marianne Budde all had a spareness to their beauty, a sense that God is present not only in festivity, but also in suffering and simplicity, and even in what appears to be empty space.

03/23/2020

I’m enjoying the snow with Flat Jesus here in Bowmanville. I’d love to see posts of what weather you’re enjoying with your Flat Jesus where you are

03/21/2020

Friends, even when you can’t be in church, Jesus is with you wherever you are, even at home! I’m starting because in these tough times someone could use that encouragement! Please help them by sharing this. Please also post photos of you at home with Flat Jesus, and what that means to you, whether profound or lighthearted. Please tag me, Lucia Lloyd. If you don’t yet have a Flat Jesus, you (or your kids!) can draw one and cut it out. When I first moved to Canada 🇨🇦, alone, with only the things I could fit in my Prius, I felt very deeply the loss of everyone I’d ever known and loved in The Episcopal Church, and the uncertainty and fear of moving to a foreign country where I didn’t know anybody. So I took with me the Flat Jesus that Helen Svoboda-Barber had given me at the Episcopal Church’s General Convention, so it would remind me that even when my beloved church community wasn’t present with me, our connections remain, and that as I faced the uncertainty and fear of a new place, I wasn’t alone: Jesus was with me. The youth of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan made and distributed this flat Jesus to show Jesus was with people wherever they travelled. Now that we are staying home from church to keep one another safe and well, it’s time to remember and to express that we are still connected and Jesus is with us at home.
Also, like the page Flat Jesus by the youth of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan and the AtHomeWithFlatJesus page I just made. I’m excited to see you and Flat Jesus!

03/21/2020

03/21/2020

My cat Po At Home With Flat Jesus