The same traveling rabbi who offered a tender yoke to the down and out of his time makes the same offer to us today. If you’re tired of it all, if you somehow got yoked to a worrisome old dogma or doctrine, toss it off. That thing is not the yoke of Jesus. His yoke brings rest; it is an easy thing.
At the end of an emotional debate … the church’s governing body overwhelmingly backed a motion saying the practice had “no place in the modern world”.
This week I have to look to see where I may be traveling in the wrong direction and endangering others in some way.
Just maybe…now and again, we get our three minutes…or our 30 seconds or so…of the special lenses in which we can see God in a way we’ve never seen before. If you could have that glimpse, how might it change you?
There are times when I pray as if God were out there somewhere, listening in. I’ll murmur a short plea for help or a thank you.
My freedom, then, becomes bound to the freedom of all people.
Violence has been crucified. In the new regime, the greatest are those who serve the most, those who have time to pour a little cool water for a child.
Both women were utterly Christian. They were born and raised in the church or in various churches, and took the Christianity very seriously.
Myths and stereotypes, misunderstandings and propaganda have been broken down. It is clear we have so much more in common than the issues that divide us and threaten our unity at this time
Saul’s search for donkeys that ended up in his being anointed ruler of all Israel reminded me of the power serendipity can have in my life if I let it.