Before people can recognize God's love, they usually have to see it in a concrete form. For the woman at the well, it was a Jew who talked with her rather than yelling at her about what was wrong with her.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Lent 3a – 8-Mar-26”
One of the things that passes in Jesus' and Nicodemus' conversation is the idea that you need to get the basics right before you can hope to understand the deep things. "You are Israel's teacher and do you not understand these things?"… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Lent 2a – 1-Mar-26”
Most of us will never face the temptation to rule the world at the cost of our soul, but we do face temptations daily to place our own security and our own comfort over the needs of others.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Lent A1 – 22-Feb-26”
In our passage for today, Jesus is speaking about the ways that our actions have impact on the lives of others around us. He says, for instance, that even being verbally cruel to others can harm them to the extent that it should be ranked with murder!… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Epiphany A6 – 15-Feb-26”
What makes the world livable? What helps us see the world in a light that gives us hope?
Surely acts of kindness and love do that better than anything else we do.
As hard as we struggle to make sense of the world and as far away as hope seems at times, dedicating our time and efforts and resources to sharing God's love in our world through concrete acts of justice and caring bring our world closer to the realm of God.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Epiphany A5 – 8-Feb-26”
"Blessed are the poor." "Blessed are the meek."
It sounds counter-intuitive and it's supposed to. The fact that it doesn't fit our experience in this world causes us to consider what sort of a world it would be if we could see more examples of this.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Epiphany A4 – 01-Feb-26”
"The people who dwelled in darkness have seen a great light."
But what exactly have they seen, perhaps something having less to do with physical light and more to do with life-giving and life-sustaining things.
When we participate in the work of the Church, whether it's directly with our own talents and abilities, or through our offerings providing the means for others to do so, we bring light and life into the world.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Epiphany 3A – 25-Jan-26”
When people are curious about the Church and what our faith means to us, they almost never consult books, even those written by our founders or our current leaders. Instead, like those disciples in our passage for today, they look at what we're doing.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Epiphany 2A – 18-Jan-26”
One of the curious things that Jesus says in the story of his baptism is that "This is to fulfil all righteousness." Jesus was concerned about actions that fulfilled what he and others claimed... and so should we be.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Baptism of the Lord A – 11-Jan-26”
John says (in different words) that to see Jesus is to see God and, to be sure, we know God's love through the actions and the words of Jesus. When we think about how God wants us to live and to move in this world, we are informed by what Jesus did.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Christmas 2A – 4-Jan-25”