May 25, 2018
It seems the old adage is a place to start: Do one thing and do it well. Though I would offer it as: Do one thing at a time and do it entirely and it will lead you to the next moment of love. -Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Fragments
Lent – Year B – Mark 14:1-15:47 For the past few years, I have sensed death wanting to be my friend. You know the type. “Let’s hang out more,” she says, “get better acquainted!” But I already have plenty of friends, a busy life, and the truth is, I’m just not that into her. Yet […]
Grow Up
For Sunday, November 15, 2015 – Mark 13:1-8 We get the idea that maturity means laying down childish illusions and accepting hard realities. “Grow up!” we say, meaning stop fantasizing about having an easy life and resign yourself to the life that is. Jesus, too, wants us to grow up—to become mature children of God—but his […]
Unexpected Abundance
For Sunday, November 8, 2015 – Mark 12:38-44 To our detriment we arrange the world into opposing types: the rich and the poor, the educated and the ignorant, the moral and the immoral, the teacher and the learner, the powerful and the lowly. Jesus warns us to beware this habit and to look again. The scribes, he says, like to walk […]
