Father Snort

Brad Sullivan 2 Lent, Year A March 12, 2017 Emmanuel, Houston John 3:1-17 Babies Crawling On the Ever-Shifting Sands of Time “They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.” That’s from poet and prophet, Billy Joel, in the song Summer Highland Falls. That single idea, that these aren’t the best of times, but they are the only times I’ve ever known, that idea holds true for each new generation, doesn’t it? When we’re first born, the world doesn’t seem crazy and messed up. It just seems like the world, even if it is crazy and messed up. Then we get older and the world seems different, and we get older and the world seems even more different. The world changes more and more, until sometimes folks find themselves living in a world they no longer really recognize or understand. New folks move into the neighborhood and the neighborhood changes