Are you hungry? Am I? What are we hungry for? When was the last time we were blessedly, contentedly full? Was there a time? Can you remember? In what ways do we seek to quell our hunger? In what ways do we seek to ignore it?
And even if we recognize our hunger, allow ourselves to go there, to remember it, and to feel it, what then?
Where to get bread?
Read MoreGod is in the business of multiplication, not division. When Jesus takes our lives and blesses them, the blessings grow and grow and grow. Our lives become more than they were, God’s abundance lives in us so that we can share that abundance with others. Our life becomes one of those barley loaves that feeds others. Our life becomes the bread that is shared. As we seek peace, as we work for justice, as we practice compassion, as we love people who are difficult to love.
Read MoreThis week’s Gospel is a study in both the necessity of rest and the promise inherent in Holy desperation.
Rest. And Holy Desperation. Perhaps these seem a strange pairing, and yet they have much in common.
Read MoreWe begin in baptism and then travel through this life, waiting and searching for clarity that may never come, yet we still find comfort and hope in our faith.
Baptism then, is not anywhere near the end of our journey. It’s a place much closer to the beginning. As it was with Jesus. After he was baptized, his ministry grew, He taught, he healed, he preached, he loved.
It wasn’t an end; it was a beginning.
Read MoreWhere do we go when we have nowhere else to go? When the bottom falls out, when all is lost. When a relationship suddenly dissolves. When we get a scary diagnosis. When a building crumbles. Where do we turn?
That is the question at the very heart of our faith.
Read MoreThere is no shortage of charity, grace or abundance in the economy of the Divine. In the human economy, we have shortages of all three. That means we must strive harder for fair balance.
Just as Paul asked the Corinthians, we can certainly ask ourselves, who needs a blessing? Who needs a gift that I can give today?
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