Overflow [Advent 2C]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Philippians 1:3-11 Overflow I'm not sure in what year it happened, but I know it happened during the Great Vigil of Easter. And so of course it was dark in the church. Only the Pascal Candle lit the chancel – a single flame dancing in the font's metallic silver bowl. That night we would welcome into the Church a new Christian – a little person we would lay on the altar of Love. As I prayed the baptismal prayer, recounting the ways in which we Christians track salvation history through water, I picked up the ewer, the liturgical pitcher, and started to pour. And pour. And pour. It was so dark that I could not see that the font was growing quite full, each drop challenging capacity. I did not realize just how full was the font until the water started to overflow – out of the font and all over the floor. It was messy. It was a little dangerous, that baptismal water all over the floor...