One in the Spirit

Baptism from February (sorry, no good pics from today)

The baptismal parties of the two candidates were a cross-section of the local community: Filipino, Caucasian, Indian and Hispanic. The congregation that gathered to witness the sacrament comprised a half-dozen additional groups that the classifiers and categorizers painstakingly enumerate to track societal health. Such distinctions fell away before the baptismal font.

During the sermon the priest spoke about the trial of George Zimmerman and the death of Trayvon Martin. Both men acted out of fear, he said, and saw what the other represented, not who they were in their entirety. Perfect love casteth out fear, say the Scriptures (1 John 4:18). Easy to say, but very, very difficult to put into practice.