I am on vacation for the next couple of weeks. While I am away I intend to take a mini Sabbath from writing. And so I offer below a reflection I offered three years ago on this week’s Gospel. I hope these words are a blessing to you as you “Dance with the Word” this …

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As you open this post, I am in the midst of a long needed vacation. I pray that these summer months also provide you such a time apart for rest and renewal.  These are challenging times we live and serve in and God’s gift of sabbath can be a great gift for us as we …

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Matthew 10:24-39 “So do not be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.” Matthew 10: 31 I am thinking about sparrows today. About how many of them there are and yet how little I notice them until they stop for a meal at one of my feeders and I find myself wishing they …

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Matthew 9:35-10:23 “As you enter the house, greet it. If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you…” (Matthew 10:13) These words from Matthew’s Gospel do not speak precisely to where my heart is today, but they come close. For throughout …

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