The Soul’s Soil
For Sunday, July 13, 2014 – Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Varied is the ground of our being. Much of the soul’s soil is packed hard on paths of worry and hurry as we pace from one cause to another, one appointment to another, one bill to another, our brains plodding the same old anxious grooves. When the seeds […]
Finding Rest
For Sunday, July 6, 2014 – Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 – Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 We are rarely satisfied. We tend to be continually busy yet jealously guard our down time. We are both generous and self-serving, overly confident and doubting. We are buried in things and see more that we want. We want to join the dance; we want to be a recluse. We […]
Welcome!
For Sunday, June 29, 2014 – Matthew 10:40-42 I have it on good authority that I might have a few too many Welcome signs around the house. In nearly every room, not to mention the garden and porch — oh joyful multiplicity! — on metal and wood, in calligraphy, made by hand or machine, they sing out: Welcome! Welcome! Yes, this […]
Straight Talk
For Sunday, June 22, 2014 – Matthew 10:24-39 Jesus tells it to us straight, even when he delivers it slant. In these riddle-like passages, Jesus plays with language, and with us. We are not fluent in his native tongue, so he teaches a full immersion course, submerging us into his way of listening and learning, challenging us to discover sense […]
