Mark 13:24-37 It seems to happen to me every year as summer turns to fall and winter is just around the corner. It happens in an especially busy season, of course, and it happens when the weather isn’t necessarily very nice and when darkness comes sooner rather than later. And it happens because one of …
Month: November 2017
Seeing the Face of Jesus
Matthew 25:31-46 It has been, quite simply, one of those weeks when I have hardly had time to pause in the Gospel reading for this week. So rather than offer something not well thought out, I returned to what I wrote in this space three years ago. I hope it still speaks. I know the …
What Do You Have to Lose?
Matthew 25:14-30 Seriously, what do we have to lose? A few days ago, I witnessed just this spirit of abandon in a small group of people who perhaps would not normally behave in this way. We were on retreat together — digging deep into scriptures which deal with ‘bread’ and wondering together about God’s abundant …
Oil For Our Lamps…
Matthew 25:1-13 Oh, it is so that as I read the saga of those bridesmaids my chest tightens just a little. For I have always worried about being ‘ready.’ No, perhaps not so much — maybe not enough even — about being ‘ready’ for the ultimate return of the ‘ bridegroom. But in the day-to-day I …