Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Proper 12A

  • The invitation to change—to be changed or to change the world around us—is both necessary and something we avoid.

  • a mustard seed, yeast, treasure, a pearl. Something valuable. But what IS it? That things can actually be better than this.

  • The gap in the lectionary this week tells of the telling of parables. Is it valuable to the reader? Well, probably not.

  • Love Poets

    Like poets, Jesus invites his followers to observe in our world those places where God breaks through so that we might revel in that joy. Proper 12A | Matthew 13:31-33,44-52 The work of the poet is discovery. After ruthless editing of course. Discovery. It begins first with discovery in the world: observation. The poet watches…

  • Jesus’s parables are dependent on seeing and understanding Proper 12A  |  Matthew 13:31-33,44-52 The Hiding At the beginning of this chapter, we’re told Jesus is so swarmed by people that He jumps into a boat to teach the crowds surrounding Him on the shore. There so many people He has to put a barrier up; to…