Today is the day of Epiphany! Happy Epiphany everyone! 

As we make this liturgical shift from Christmas to Epiphany,
the assigned readings that we read on Sunday mornings will also make an appropriate shift from stories about the baby Jesus
to stories of adult Jesus.  

I think it’s helpful, during this season of discovery, to
read hear these stories about adult Jesus by asking ourselves the question that Jesus asks his disciples: “Who do you say that I am?”  

It’s a question that we’ve likely been asked before by a
preacher or confirmation teacher, but it is nonetheless a helpful question to
reengage periodically because the answer to this question doesn’t just reveal
something about who Jesus is, but who we are as well.

Father Richard Rohr puts it beautifully: “Your image of God
creates you.”  Such a statement makes one
wonder if the current climate of fear and hatred in our world is a product of Sunday school
classes and Sunday morning sermons about an angry and vengeful god.  

But as we lean into a new year and a new liturgical season,
I wonder if the stories of Jesus the miracle worker, Jesus the teacher, and
Jesus the transfigured might alter our image of Jesus ever so slightly, and in
so doing, change how we understand ourselves and our place in God’s grand
story.  

Who do you say Jesus is?  And how does your answer to this question change the way you live each day?