Rubble -- Ezra 3:1-3, 8-13 (21st Sunday After Pentecost)

Over the course of the Scriptures through the Hebrew Scriptures, and really on into the New Testament, again and again, a tenacious people make meaning out of the recurring rubble of their world. Standing in the reality of that rubble, the people lament even as they glimpse a path toward healing, weeping, and shouting, and singing “God is good. God is good. God’s steadfast love endures forever.” God creates us for life in community and accompanies us so that, in a changing world, even in calamity, we can find our way to life.