What are you looking for?

Doom scrolling - it’s the term used for those of us who flip through endless pages on our cell phones, particularly in these wildly tumultuous days. I start with Facebook, move to CBC, CNN, HuffPost, the Guardian, Washington Post, the New Yorker. To be honest, my scrolling is not all high brow: I check out Vulture and the Daily Mail with equal enthusiasm.  And then sometimes I’ll start all over again. It’s a dreadful practice, we all know it, but hard to stop. Reflecting on this practice as I thought about my sermon, I had a sudden and startling vision. There, causing the scrolling images to come to a screeching halt, was the face of Jesus with a text below: “What are you looking for?”

What indeed are we looking for as we scroll through life, literally and metaphorically? What is the yearning we can’t quite put our finger on? What is it about Jesus that draws us towards him?  We’re not the first ones who Jesus has asked this question.  And we’re not the first ones to ask how to find him.

This Sunday we’ll hear this story of Jesus, and we’ll consider our responses to his question, and his response to us.

Looking for something? Come search with us.