A Wider Lens
There is a human tendency to focus on the ever changing weather, and not on the mountain standing firm within it. To see dead leaves on top of the water, rather than the solid river bed glistening below. To be stuck in a moment, an emotion, or fixated on trying to solve an unsolvable problem. […]
Good Will
On a hot summer day, my friend and I stepped out of the ice cream shop looking for a shady spot to enjoy our already melting cones. As he stepped off the curb, splat! His chocolate ice cream fell out of the cone to the pavement. Stunned and disappointed, he looked up and saw a […]
If You Don’t Get It, You Don’t Get It
In this week’s Gospel reading,* Jesus tells a parable about two men who had gone to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, whose prayer reminded God that he wasn’t like other people, but someone who conscientiously followed demanding spiritual practices. The other was a tax collector, slumped in a dark corner not daring […]
Keeping the Faith
When the path that Jesus’s followers were travelling got difficult, Jesus wanted to encourage them to not lose faith, so he told them a story about a widow who keeps knocking on the door of an unjust judge.* We don’t really know anything about the case, except that widows in that time and place were […]