
Christopher Thomas Sermon for Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year A – 5/19/20 Acts 17:22-31 Psalm 66:7-18 1 Peter 3:13-22 John 14:15-21 When you’re weary, feeling small When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all I’m on your side, oh, when times get rough And friends just can’t be found Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down – Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon & Garfunkel Troubled. Troubled. Troubled. Paul Simon penned those iconic words, as Simon & Garfunkel’s anthem of angst took to the airwaves and pretty much summed up the feelings of a nation, maybe even a world, that was, “troubled,” to say the least. The year was 1970, and the world was on the edge of crises, the Vietnam War, raging all around, politics deeply dividing nations, peoples, communities, friends, families. Sound familiar? To say that things were “troubled” would have been…