Second Sunday after Epiphany, January 14th, 2024

 Second Sunday after Epiphany, January 14th, 2024

I kid around that I am always the last one to know something.  And I am out of the loop especially when it comes to popular things or fashionable things, so to speak.  So it  certainly comes as no surprise that I only recently heard about this furor surrounding Stanley mugs/tumblers.  Have you heard about this?   People line up to buy these Stanley mugs and they sell out immediately.  And as a result of these mgs selling out, people are reselling them for 200, 300, 400 dollars.  It simply astounds me.  It is funny, though, because I was washing my coffee mug recently and while I am washing it, I noticed something which I never noticed before.  It turns out that my mug which I have been using for years is a Stanley mug.  The thing that is so popular throughout the world right now is something that I already possessed all along.  This got me to thinking about God or should I say people searching for God.  So often we search for God because we need Him.  So often we search for God in all kinds of places.  But the bottom line is that God was there all along.   So often God is right there alongside us and we don't even realize it.   "Whither shall I go from Thy spirit?  Or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?" (Psalm 139:7)  God is everywhere.  God is with us at all times.  God is always with us.  But at the times when we do not think God is with us, the truth is that we were not focused on God.  We were too busy focused on other things.  We were too busy focused on the things of the world . . . the things that we wanted  . . . focused on things of the world.  But no matter what God remains there with us.  And we are surprised that God was there all along.  At those times we discover that God was not absent from us, we were absent from Him. 

St. Margaret of Scotland Anglican Church is a traditional Anglican parish, which uses the Anglican Missal and the 1928 Book of Common Prayer.  We also use the King James Version of the Bible.  We believe strongly in Our Lord's words . . .  "this is My Body and this is My Blood" . . . and believe that Our Blessed Saviour is truly present in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar and we receive Him at Communion time.  Come join us every Sunday morning at 10:30 AM as we gather together as God's family to worship Our Blessed Lord.  We celebrate Mass in the Chapel at Marquette Manor, which is located at 8140 N. Township Line Road on the Northwest side of Indianapolis.