Who remembers what
color I talked about last week? Purple. This week, I am going to talk about the
color Pink.
Pink comes to us from a
flower with a great big word that I cannot even pronounce (Caryophyllales). It
is also known as a carnation. Pink is usually pale red. We find in our world
pink flowers and plants, pink flamingoes, elephants, salmon and pigs. Some
people drive pink Cadillacs and others wear pink carnations on their white
sport coats. My wife loves pink sunsets.
Since today is the
Third Sunday of Advent, we lit the pink candle on our wreathe. Pink symbolizes
joy and happiness because we are getting closer to celebrating the birth of
Jesus. Christmas is only 12 days away! Can you feel the joy?!
In St. Paul’s Letter
this morning, we heard him write about joy. He told people to rejoice. Jesus
even told people to rejoice. He said, “Rejoice … and leap for joy, because great is your reward
in heaven.”
When we are joyful, our
faces show it. We smile and laugh. Sometimes, we jump around and dance, or sing
and clap our hands. As Christians, we do this because we rejoice that God –
Father, Son and Holy Spirit – love us and are with us here and now. We feel
them in our hearts, and we feel so joyful.
St. Paul tells us that
we must also rejoice when we are suffering because we know even though we face
trouble, we prayerfully thank God for His gift of salvation. So, pink reminds
us to rejoice and pray.
And now, let us pray.
Heavenly Father, from whom all fatherhood in heaven and earth is named: Bless
all children, and give their fathers and mothers the spirit of wisdom and love,
so that the homes in which they grow up may be to them an image of Your
Kingdom, and the care of their parents a likeness of Your love. We pray in the
Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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