What signs of resurrection am I noticing in this season? How am I or how are we in transition? What is difficult about transition? What is difficult about growth? Why am I hopeful this morning, If I am? Why am I bewildered or terrified, if I am?

As I listen for the hopeful and loving work of God, within and around me, what am I hearing? What am I noticing? What is worth celebrating?

Seth Martin (Seth Mountain, 이산) is a peace activist, poet, teacher, and musician originally from the Pacific Northwest, and a long-term friend of Camas Friends. Since 2015 he has lived and worked in Korea with his partner, Lee Nan Young, but he still lovingly considers Camas Friends his "home church".

How do I experience grace? How have I experienced grace? How have I experienced being “made alive” or whatever language most captures the positive movement of my spirituality? How has discovering God’s grace or my agency (or both) been a kind of salvation?

22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, 23 but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

Jade Souza is an attender at Camas Friends and in her second semester at Earlham School of Religion (ESR). In collaboration with ESR and in support of Jade's studies and calling, this is the second of three sermons Jade will give at CFC during the '20-'21 school year.