Sixth Sunday after the Pentecost

God made a promise to you at your baptism - a covenant so holy He will never break it. He promised to be your God - to love you and forgive you and care for you - to make sure when you finally make it home there is a place with your name on the door and the lights on. Your life will not be perfect - you will experience trauma and heartache, pain and sickness, lostness and fear. Weaving its way in and out of all those will be joy and hope and love and peace. And every morning when you wake up and every night before you go to bed you will ask yourself what the purpose of your life is and how it is to be lived and what it all means. You may not think about the words of your baptism - but they are engraved on your forehead and your head and you soul - even if you are the only one who knows they are there - just like Abraham and Sarah were the only ones who knew that what God had promised them