Making Demands of God
For Sunday, August 18, 2013 – Psalm 82 The psalmist has experienced God as a God of justice and mercy, but when he looks at the vast needs of so many, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, the nations failing to serve, he has to wonder. He interrogates the Holy One, demanding response. “What’s going […]
Do not be afraid …
Ordinary Time – Year C – Luke 12:32-40 “Do not be afraid, little flock….” Simply sell all that you own. Relinquish everything, and give. Fear attaches to things we cannot release, a ruinous mold spreading in the dark isolation of our grasping and clutching. Fear infiltrates all the systems of our life, alters our breathing and […]
Imagine New Ways
For Sunday, August 4, 2013 – Luke 12:13-21 It isn’t that he did anything wrong exactly, the land owner whose crops yielded abundantly. Nature gives. Should he regret the bounty of the harvest? Should he let it go to waste in the field, proving himself to be a lazy and ungrateful servant? No, the problem for the land […]
Keep On
For Sunday, July 28, 2013 – Luke 11:1-13 In the book Clinging, the Experience of Prayer, Emilie Griffin begins this way: “There is a moment between intending to pray and actually praying that is as dark and silent as any moment in our lives. It is the split second between thinking about prayer and really praying. For […]
