Radiant Wholeness
As Lent approaches, I am watching the slow miracle of orchids opening on my windowsill. Fleshy green leaves brush the chilled glass as a third flower opens from the line of buds. Amid other mementos on the sill, deep crimson stipples the white petals and a golden throat opens. Its radiance stuns me awake. Outside, […]
Two-by-fours and Specks!
In light of this week’s gospel passage,* I have been trying to think of contemporary examples of people who are not judging others. There are sure to be numerous examples, but I haven’t been able to think of a single one. On the other hand, I can think without effort of at least twenty examples […]
Blessed Are You
Today’s gospel reading* takes me back to a former workplace and a particular co-worker and his response to the everyday greeting, “How are you?” “I am blessed,” he would say; not the typical “Fine” or “OK” or “It’s been rough” or this or that, but always, simply, “I am blessed.” Many years have passed since […]
Extravagant Abundance
Extravagant abundance was Jesus’ signature style. In today’s Gospel passage,* that unnerving profusion is manifested at Lake Gennesaret. Jesus tells Simon to take his boat back out in the lake and cast his fishing nets out again, though was exhausted from having just been fishing all night. After some well-justified resistance, Simon did as Jesus […]