When the time after Epiphany stretches to March, it gives time for added reflection about the stories of “ah-ha’s,” justice, and light that Jesus shares and the disciples witness. In this spirit, this month we are invited to ponder what new insights, wisdom, and questions God might be providing and calling us to see and dwell in. By extension then, we can also dig in and wonder about what such insights, wisdom, and questions we might be being called to share with our larger communities and world. Some of these might include hard but needed conversations. But in gathering together to have them, a new epiphany might just be sparked. And as we gather together, we might just sense God active and among us, calling us to sense and see something in new light, and to live forever changed as a beloved disciple and Child of God.

Questions for Reflection:

  • In what ways have you seen and experienced God cultivating epiphanies around you and for you? What did they feel like? What did you sense? What might you have imagined?
  • How might God be inviting you to cultivate epiphanies? For yourself? For your faith community? For your larger community?
  • What potentially harder conversations is God calling you to have? Whom will they be with? What might they be about?
  • What sort of epiphanies have you had recently that have left an impact? What were they? How were you changed by them?

Suggested Hymns and Songs:

Ask the Complicated Questions  (ACS 1005)
Songs of Thankfulness and Praise (ELW 310 & LBW 90)
This Little Light of Mine (ELW 677)
We Eat the Bread of Teaching  (ELW 518)
You Are the Seed (WOV 753)

Other Theme Considerations and Potential Connections:

  • “Cultivating Epiphanies” might cover the gamut of topics, leaning fully into the space between Epiphany and the Transfiguration. What topics or questions might be pertinent and ready to be reflected on in your context? Under the themes of truth, light, and justice, perhaps we might model as Christian community a way forward through hard but important conversations. Perhaps these might include topics like accessibility, racism, etc., and help us see things in a new light or perspective.
  • The February calendar includes the time after Epiphany, and is also Black History Month. Other dates on the calendar include the Super Bowl, Valentine’s Day and President’s Day, and the continuation of winter and the hope that comes as days begin to be longer and spring starts to come near. How might these observances provide intentional opportunities for conversations, discoveries, and epiphanies?