For Sunday
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When Jesus talks about forgiveness, we tend to make the question about ourselves (how do I?) when it is about a relationship.
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When Jesus asks the disciples who he is, it isn’t so much a test, but an opportunity to witness, to share, to embody relationship.
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The parable of the sower can feel like perfectionism: Goldilocks meets self-help. It isn’t about making ourselves ideal. It’s about becoming whole.
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Jesus sounds off on the people who aren’t getting with the program. Is this like our own complaints, or is it something else?
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In the Day of Pentecost, we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit with great pomp and circumstance, but it relationship remains central.
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In the Sunday between the Ascension and Pentecost, we continue to focus on the thing that Jesus wants us to hear: it’s about relationship.