[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] A Call to Remember by Max Lucado

[Maggie Stringer]

Toward the end of the book of Esther we read, “[Mordecai]…sent letters to
all the Jews…to have them celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth
days of the month of Adar…as the month when their sorrow was turned into
joy and their mourning into a day of celebration…” (Esther 9:20-21).

The book of Esther does not end with victory in battle. It ends with a call
to remember. One tradition is the baking of a three-cornered, jelly-filled
pastry. The hidden jelly recalls the hiddenness of God. I like the idea
that God’s presence, scrumptious and unseen, is baked into the story of
redemption. And I appreciate the value of a two-day celebration in which
people of faith revisit the way their God prevailed. We tend to forget. We
forget that God is for us, not against us. That God can make beauty out of
ashes. We need memorials that jog our memory.


Maggie Stringer
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