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May 8 - 14, 2025
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Dear Beloved in Christ,
There’s a moment in our first reading for this Fourth Sunday of Easter from Acts 9:36–43 that has lingered with me all week. It’s when the widows of Joppa gather around Peter, weeping. But their grief doesn’t come with empty hands—it comes with tunics and garments, lovingly stitched by their friend Tabitha (also called Dorcas). They hold them up, not just as clothing, but as evidence of a life woven with kindness. “Look,” they seem to say, “this is the kind of person she was.”
Luke tells us that Tabitha was “devoted to good works and acts of charity.” We don’t hear her words, only the testimony of her actions. And that’s often the case, isn’t it? We are remembered not so much by what we said, but by the way we quietly loved others—through a casserole delivered, a listening ear, a handmade quilt, a patient heart.
Dorcas reminds me of my own grandmother, a gifted seamstress who probably never thought twice about the things she made and gave away. But to those who received them, they were anything but small. They were tokens of love, of someone seeing them and caring enough to act.
That’s the gift of living in Christ. We don’t have to obsess over leaving a legacy. We simply live in love, and love leaves its own kind of legacy. In Jesus, even our smallest acts of grace become part of God’s greater story of redemption. The world may overlook them—but someone notices. Someone is comforted. Someone is changed.
Dorcas didn’t raise herself. Peter didn’t act alone. It was Christ who brought life where there had been death—and Christ who continues to do so through us, in every act of kindness, in every stitch of compassion.
Live in love. Share generously. Don’t worry if it seems small. God’s Spirit turns those small things into stories that last forever.
Yours in Christ,
Pastor Will
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