All Saints Sunday 2024 (Nov 3)
The sunflower on the maintenance road didn’t get the memo — it didn’t belong there and it was too late in the season. Yet it was there, and for the folks walking by, it became a beautiful symbol of God’s faithfulness. In spite of how broken our world is, there remains enough signposts and sacraments, signs of God’s goodness, that we are forced to reckon with the reality of God’s presence and faithfulness in our lives.
This All Saints Sunday we reflect on the sunflowers on the road of our lives — the people whose presence bore witness to God’s faithfulness in our lives. We link back to Jesus meeting people on the road of life’s sorrows (John 11:32-44) as he becomes the chief sunflower on the road for us.
