Reflection on Sunday’s Gospel Mark 5:21-43 Isolated and aloneWoman of bloodpours herself towardsthe fabric of life. Dewdrop of hopeslips down the threadto the womanwith outstretched
God’s economy is generous toward the needy. All receive their daily bread; debts are forgiven.
The haunting part about it for me was the image of Korah, Dathan and Abiram standing at the entrance of their tents along with “their wives, their children, and their little ones.” Moses prays for God to judge between them, and the earth opens up and swallows them all alive. Children and all.
So now you can relax. You don’t have to make all “A’s.”. Instead, you can relax and learn. Learn and grow for the sake of the learning and growing rather than for the grade
Psalms 66, 67 (Morning) Psalms 19, 46 (Evening) Numbers 14:26-45 Acts 15:1-12 Luke 12:49-56 And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying: How
Then the men who had gone up with him said, ‘We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than
If God does something great like that with unfaithfulness, there is no limit to what God can do, especially with any form of faithfulness.
The story in Numbers 12 is a fascinating tale of racism. Moses’ sister and brother, Miriam and Aaron “spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married.”
A brother asked Abba Poemen, “Why should I not be free to do without manifesting my thoughts to the old men?” The old man replied,
“For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another…