Our Witness is Our One-ness [Easter 7A]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Acts 1:6-14 Our Witness is Our One-ness Caught in between time is how you might describe them. This indefinite wait between two ages. After Jesus and before whatever was next. For us, gazing back in time, the time in between those two events, between the Ascension and Pentecost is just ten days. Not terribly long. But for those disciples who watched Jesus go, the waiting might have been forever. There was no time-table. He never said. Jesus rose out of sight and they just kept staring into what was, eventually, just sky - the same sky that has always been. Just sky; no Jesus. Just them; no Jesus. Just time; and no idea what would happen next or when it would happen. The first thing that happens post-Ascension is that they are questioned, maybe corrected, by the suddenly-appearing men in white. That pro...