by Marcia Mount Shoop
Isaiah 43:16-21
“This passage in second Isaiah is really about the economy of apocalypse. The ways it gives and takes, the ways it requires receiving and releasing.
Both receiving and releasing have their own mini apocalypses built into them. Sometimes receiving can be the biggest challenge of all–especially we are fully engulfed in a trauma response that has conditioned us to react, fight, flee, fawn or freeze, especially when our bodies are conditioned not to trust, not to see, not to believe anything can change.
Just because it’s hard, doesn’t mean it isn’t what we need to do. That’s why we are cultivating, that’s why we are lingering here in apocalypse to see what its gifts and its costs might be.”
Watch the full GCPC service on 9/21/25 here
(Sermon begins at 1:12)