June 17, 2025 · Easter 4c · Ordinary Time (after Pentecost) · Year C
Good Shepherd Sunday - Easter 4c
Psalm 23, Revelation 7:9-17, and John 10:22-30 invite us to seek the Good Shepherd not only in sacred buildings but in the ordinary beauty and struggle of daily life. The reflection asks where God is found, and answers: everywhere we are connected to one another and to creation.
Scripture:Psalms 23 · Revelation 7:9-17 · John 10:22-30
Shepard Sunday
Tony E Hansen
Reflection based upon Psalm 23, Revelation 7:9-17, John 10:22-30
Opening Prayer
Happy Good Shepard Sunday !
People often ask Where is God? The scripture from John and the Psalm (23) challenges us to look for God not just in a temple, church or synagogue but here and now not (just during worship.)
Who is the one that shepherds you on a gorgeous Mothers day in May? For I submit, we do not do this alone?
We are not just an ego in a bag of skin but someone who is connected to this beauty and joy this day. Not every day is sunshine on a cool morning because we know that sunshine can make a great day intolerable and hot. Yet we know that storms have grace and majesty.
Where is God? Not just in special buildings but God is here in the beautiful and the storm. God is all around us comforting us, guiding us and calling to us.
So too with us as people, children of the One, we are as diverse as the stars and the Spirit that creates also lives in us. Question is whether we are willing to listen to that Spirit speaking to us?
What does the Spirit say? Ask and you will understand that the Lamb, envisioned in Revelations, invites you to sit with them, and to walk along besides waters and green pastures: to meditate on this beauty for when the storms come, to remember the grace of that voice so that it can be heard then too.
Yes, When the storms come, and they will, use gracious days like this to learn how to listen for the Lord in wondrous ways speaking to you. For when the days are rough and everything feels rotten, we need to remember to listen to the Lord speaking to us, calling us to days like these, then too.
Where is God? Every where and every one! Listen and walk with God today.
Thanks be to God