“We have to be willing to look at things from the other person’s point of view, and we have to be willing to stretch into reconciliation even in those instances when we don’t think we did anything wrong.”
The word, “immediately,” occurs more than twenty times in Mark’s sixteen brief chapters. There is an urgency to his proclamation of the “good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God” which has its own profound beauty.
“I know you are with me if I just pay attention.”
“Remember, Jesus had to chide one apostle or another every time they didn’t quite get the message. Don’t worry. God is patient.”
I will be waiting and listening in the wind and looking out across the desert, wherever I go, I’ll be waiting. I’ll keep my ears open. I am waiting to hear her say, “You’re not going to believe this…”
“We followed Ann’s journey, a journey she allowed us to share with her. It was a gift that I, for one, have only just begun to really understand and really appreciate. It was like a final gift that she gave to me and, I’m sure, many others.”
“When will the sun break through the clouds and thickly clinging fog? Step by step, Trust the path.”
“Her vision of the church was that you are beloved of Jesus no matter what; and there is always a place at the table for you.”
“I ruminate on soul-snagging. How might I cooperate with the Holy Spirit in her use of me?”
“So if not a formerly demon-possessed, reformed prostitute, who was this woman who according to near unanimous New Testament tradition was at the cross, witness to Jesus’ burial, and the first witness to the resurrection?”