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 […]
Worry and Compassion
For Sunday, July 21, 2013 – Luke 10:38-42 and Colossians 1:15-28 Can’t you hear the affection in his voice: “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things.” Jesus calls it like he sees it—and I think what he sees is not only Martha, but all of us. How prone we are to worry and distraction! […]
