God with us, in the mud

The celebration of baptism takes place in something utterly mundane, even as the church often dresses it up enormously with ornate fonts, massive candles, sometimes fantastic flowing gowns. It is absolutely worth celebrating, and worth celebrating well.

And yet, backing up and slowing down, it’s water. All we need is the stuff we engage a hundred times a day, the substance that we rely on and also that shapes so many of our days, whether for its presence or by its absence. Water is, and by extension baptism is also, quite literally, the basic stuff of life.

Listen to Rev. Liz’s sermon here.