Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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Scripture offers us two visions of the triumphal entry, depending on how we imagine the moment and I kinda like the rebellious one.
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How we understand the character of Jesus, and more importantly, our relationship to that vision, determines our response to him.
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When we read this story and think of waste, we are being seduced, not with a virtuous desire for service, but an unhealthy desire to be right.
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The parable we know as the Prodigal Son is a story of grace and disappointment. And in its setting is a reminder of our relationships.
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Jesus undermines the prohibition of relationship between the ritually pure and the condemned because grace is more important.
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The human tendency to blame, to punish, or assume the worst — to compare — is at the center of Jesus’s call to cut it out.