Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons

Given to Weeping and Laughter

October 31, 2021 SMC preachers
Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
Given to Weeping and Laughter
Show Notes

We remember our beloved saints who have passed on by reflecting on Jesus’ blessing, spoken to those who grieve: You shall laugh. And Jesus’ woe, delivered to those who laugh: You shall grieve. We are each one of us both, of course - those who laugh and those who grieve. Often all at the same time. And even when we experience a (brief) reprieve from one or the other, we are given to one another in community to bear the joys and sorrows of one another.

Sermon begins at minute 3:27

Scripture:
1 Kings 5:1-5; 8:1-13

Music: Sally Ann Morris  © 1998 GIA Publications, Inc.

Text: Thomas Troeger © Oxford University Press Inc. 2002. 

Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Resources

  • This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers, Lillian Daniel and Martin B. Copenhaver
  • “All Saints” prayer, by Janet Morley, All Desires Known (1988), 148.
  • Photo: A couple of SMC saints - Chuck & Larry