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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When Jesus says that he comes to divide, many are prone to mistake either the purpose or the necessity for division. But it is how we heal.
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The thing about greatness is that we use it to diminish as much as praise, to reward exploitation rather than engage with reconciliation.
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Jesus sends his disciples out to do the things he does, which, at this point is stuff that has been blowing their ever-loving minds.
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The vision Jesus offers the disciples, of seeing themselves as laborers in the fields is one we hear with baggage and sincere hope.
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Returning to an earlier point in the gospel of Matthew, we are invited to a moment in which Jesus is doing one radical act after another.
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Jesus pushes back at the impulse to focus our attention on one another, to the people who are good, while forgetting our love for everyone else.