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Category Archives: lectionary reflection
If salt has lost its saltiness
If my salt has lost its saltiness will the sun still rise in the morning? If my fire has lost its spark will the moon still hang pale in the afternoon sky? There are days, Lord, not to get salty with you, when I might … Continue reading
Succession
I must admit, with the news and all, I couldn’t help wondering about whether the disciples were actually arguing about the succession plan. After all, Mark says that they didn’t understand when Jesus told him about his death and coming … Continue reading
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Tagged current affairs, greatest, humility, Jesus, Mark 9:30-37, succession
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Succession
Arguing succession and success,was the prophetic failure of deatha threat to their ambition, or of what were they afraid: the banality of the cross,perverse instinct of humankind to kill, to crush instead of to create; or the riposte of otherworldly … Continue reading
For the love of Jesus
I think that in this gospel reading, Jesus is asking us to see him for himself, as himself. To spend the time, to invest ourselves in knowing him. Not because he needs us to, but because if we can see him more clearly, and follow him more nearly, we will learn to love more truly, to heal more fully, to find the image of God where we most need to see it, where it most needs to be seen. Continue reading
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Tagged Jesus, Mark 8:27-38, prayer, Springfield Ohio, St John of the Cross, Year B Proper 19
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Get thee behind, Satan
A piercing crown of loneliness, seductive pain plays behind the eyes; a weary hand passes over as though palming pennies for the dead. Easier to surrender now to sleep and rise in glory than to die. Who then, though, to … Continue reading
Humanity
It is a call not to lose sight of the humanity of Jesus at work in the most difficult situations, even among the demons. … Continue reading
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Tagged bias, humanity, Jesus, sin, Syro-phoenician woman, Year B Proper 18
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Ephphatha
The risks of cracking ajar the teeth, loosing the tongue of fire fanned by vague spirits, unstopping the ears, allowing the world to pound its wares upon its drums outweighed in an instant by the shriek of an eagle drafting … Continue reading
Hungry
Jesus says, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry.”
Now I could quibble and say that elsewhere Jesus said that a person does not live by bread alone – but since Jesus is, also, the very Word of God, I think he has that covered.
So what does it mean for him to say, “Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty”?
Surely it cannot mean that I don’t need my electricity back on after all! Continue reading
Body parts
Don’t give up, Paul might say, despite the worn and broken nature of the world, despite our own limitations, whether every part works or not. For we are each formed by God and called together in the love of Christ, and when we work together, to support and to encourage and grow one another’s faith, we will discover and do more than we can ask or imagine, by the love of God. Continue reading
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Tagged Body of Christ, Ephesians 4:1-16, Year B Proper 13
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Abundance
We live in a world, in a country and a community, hungry for love, starving for mercy, thirsty for good news. We have all that is needed to provide those essential nutrients to the people before us, around us, among us. And that is exactly where Jesus asks us to begin. Continue reading
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Tagged abundance, Ephesians 3:20-21, feeding, feeding five thousand, Jesus, John 6:1-21, politics, prayer, providence
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