I don’t often try to relate all the Lectionary texts to each other. I’m not opposed to it, I simply don’t think it is necessary to do so. I don’t have a really “good” reason for why I linked them together this Sunday . . . other than the strong sense this is what I…
Wisdom. This is another word, from a quite short list of religiously significant words, that hasn’t been debased or redefined into uselessness. Wisdom still means something to almost everyone even if it is hard to define. It is a word with generally positive connotations and something virtually everyone wants. We want political and other leaders…
It seems to take some of us quite a while to learn that if we don’t ask for what we need, we probably won’t ever get it. This makes sense in children who are trying to figure out how the world works but it makes less sense when you are well into adulthood and still…