It’s not often I hear someone say something that is utterly and completely true, so when I do, I usually remember. Such is the case with this saying: By Monday at noon we have forgotten who we are.

Whoever said this first was a worshiping Christian who noticed that all the remembering of Sunday is mostly gone by Monday. We are forgetful people.

So Worship Connection is launching a weekly feature called Monday at Noon. For a time, this space will be devoted to: remembering. We will remember God and remember us-in-Christ. We will remember who we are with-God in the ordinary workaday life.

The practice of remembering is different in the Sunday-worship-event context than it is in the workaday context. (BTW: “workaday” comes from Thomas Kelly, Quaker mystic, who writes that there is a “subterranean sanctuary of the soul, where the Light Within never fades… a workaday light for the marketplace, a guide for perplexed feet, a recreator of culture-patterns for the race of men.”)

You get the idea: a worshiper with a “subterranean” self-in-Christ has a vibrant life in the marketplace.  This sort of person recreates culture according to the vision of God in Christ. By Monday at noon, we (all Christians) need to center-down for our workweek. When we don’t, we end up running ‘round the same track the disciples ran ‘round. We forget about Jesus and what we are when we are with Jesus. We forget the moments we had with Jesus (just moments earlier), and we enter into our next moments as though there is no Jesus at all.

If you’re willing or able, read and reflect on Matthew 15. Notice the pattern of forgetting and remembering. Though we are inconsistent in our memory of Jesus, Jesus is ever mindful of us; and our forgetting is always an occasion for the Spirit to create more subterranean space—in us.

Please post your reflections as a reply to this thread.

God’s best,
Katie Martinez

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