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Being Good Isn’t Good Enough
The point isn’t to be good, it’s to do good. It seems both countercultural and yet so normal, doesn’t it? For those of us who grew up trying to be good, though, this is hard to swallow. We were rewarded for sitting still and following the rules; often being complimented for our behavior. Our benefit…
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The Inevitable Search for Eternal Life
In a story we assume is about wealth, Jesus reveals our misconceptions about life, grace, and the human project.
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A few random thoughts
I spent a good part of my home quarantine the last couple of weeks learning more coding with CSS and HTML. It seemed like a good idea. Now I know more. I decided it was important because I wanted to do more than tweak my site. I wanted to make it really mine. Since I…
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I wrote a poem in the water
I wrote a poem in the water.Swimming with the familyit flowed and buoyantly carried me,along the beach, drifting likememory or expectations.Inflated like a float,I somehow became free of both.
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Not wealth, grace
When Jesus tells us about the problems with wealth, we get hung up on whether or not he means us. But that isn’t the point. For the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 23B Collect Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good…
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Stumble
It’s about other people There’s a challenging phrase Jesus uses in the gospel of Mark: stumbling block. He tells his followers not to be a stumbling block: the block positioned at someone’s feet that trips them. That causes them to stumble and fall. While it is easy to think Jesus doesn’t want us to get…
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God doesn’t insist I be better
For Sunday – October 3, 2021:the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Collect Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and…
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