I want to take a minute with you all and explain, that to me, the very best pop love songs created are really, really great when in our listening ears and listening hearts, we can replace the Lover with an idea of God and the Love with an idea of ourselves and the song still works.
Read MoreMy friend Kate says about this week’s gospel lesson that timing and abundance are intertwined in this story from here at the beginning of Jesus' ministry. Actually, Jesus has not yet begun teaching or working wonders among the people, yet his mother has confidence that he can help when a crisis arises at the wedding of a friend. In this story, John provides a glimpse of Jesus and his mother as human beings who had friends, who "partied," and who fretted when something went wrong.
Read More“Do not fear.” What a thing to say to us, to tell us humans who are full of fears, both small and great ones, do not fear. And Jesus, who in today’s gospel reading is declared the Son of God, the one with whom God is well pleased, Jesus tells us the same thing, in the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus says: “Do not fear, only believe … do not fear,” he says, even “those who can kill the body but who cannot kill the soul.”
Read MoreWhat do you dream about when you are going through a particularly scary or fearful time? When there are changes going on in your life, like relocation to a new or different home? Starting a new job or a new project within the old job? Or maybe there are conflicts in the old job that might lead to relocation and/or a new job? When you are going through those hard and demanding times, what do you dream about at night? My most prevalent “stress dream” is the one where I forgot the baby.
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