Learning to Graze
For Sunday, May 11, 2014 – John 10:1-10 I have been meditating this week on a picture of one solitary sheep grazing in a green pasture. That’s all this sheep is doing—not pawing at the ground in search of better food, not dangling off a cliff from having climbed too high, not discussing with other […]
Becoming Community
For Sunday, April 27, 2014 – John 20:19-31 Was it lack of courage that sent the shaking disciples into lockdown? Or just the stark and unavoidable awareness of what can, and does, happen when one is faithful? Maybe their human frailty, their shock, their incapacity to conquer, has overwhelmed them into hiding. We do it all the time—assess […]
I Am the Way
For Sunday, May 18, 2014 – John 14:1-14 Jesus keeps on trying to clarify, and his friends keep on struggling for clarity. At least that much hasn’t changed. “Do not be troubled. Believe in God, believe in me. God’s house has many dwelling places. Wouldn’t I have told you if there wasn’t going to be […]
Dead or Alive
For Sunday, April 6, 2014 – John 11:1-45 How devastating for someone to die of a curable illness. Even worse, Mary and Martha know that if only Jesus had been where they needed him to be, he could have healed their brother. Where are you, Jesus? Can’t you see how much we need you? We cry out, bereft, struggling under the weight of […]
