Trusting the Potter
This upcoming year is not so much about what we are going to do but about what God is going to do for us.
This upcoming year is not so much about what we are going to do but about what God is going to do for us.
The servant who buried his master’s money did so because he was not paying attention.
The refusal of the wise virgins to share reminds us that love is not always giving our neighbor what he or she asks.
For all the people who prove themselves unworthy of our imitation, there are still some people who inspire us.
God is beyond human understanding. How then can the actions of this unknowable God be expressed? Only through limited human language. The descriptions of the Spirit of God in the scriptures are efforts to express the inexpressible God. A history of the Spirit’s actions etches a portrait of our invisible God.
What can we do when pain and loss enter our lives? Although we cannot explain evil, we can negotiate its presence though acceptance and “throwing together.”
When Jesus is asked to give one commandment, he gives two instead. This is intentional, because two commandments are actually one.
When we choose to refuse a personal invitation of God, there are consequences.
All of us have said words and made choices we regret. But we can use them to move to a better place.
The parable of the workers in the vineyard tells us something about a national policy on immigration.
Life is difficult! The hope that comes from the Gospel is this: that which is difficult can also be good.
In his humanity with its limitations, Jesus makes the wrong decision in dealing with the Canaanite woman.