ASLC Devotions - Saturday

Saturday, April 2

 

John 1:1

 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

It was the first day of first grade at Pilgrim Lutheran School in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. I sat in the first desk in the first row on the far right side. Mrs. Zwinscher, our kindergarten teacher, an older, very slight woman - think Ruth Bader Ginsburg - had graduated with us. On that first day she stood next to my desk, and explained what was ahead for us all.

“First grade is full of curves and circles, not straight lines like in kindergarten,” Mrs. Zwinscher explained. “We learned to write in capital letters then, but now we will learn to write in lower case. And we will learn to read.”

I trembled with excitement. How could I be so lucky, to have my beautiful Mrs. Zwinscher once again, and to learn to read! And that year I gobbled up words, basking in the pure joy of discovering this new world.

Just as Mrs. Z. illuminated my life that year in first grade, John is telling us the same thing in this passage: “In the beginning was the Word.” And now this Word, our God, the all-powerful creator of everything, has come to us, revealing Himself to our first grade minds. And slowly the Word made flesh, shows us who he is and actively, palpably, imaginatively lives in us with light and life and being.

How can we be so lucky?!

Jane Oppermann