What does it look like to "clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience"? One thing it looks like is to truly see the needs of others around you and do what you can to meet them.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Proper C13 – 03-Aug-25”
"Your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven." We pray this, and, as with much of our prayers, we are also to be concerned with making it happen.
How do we do that? Well, we care for the sick and suffering.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Proper C12 – 27-Jul-25”
What do each of us have to give? Mary and Martha represent two very different sets of gifts and predilections. Martha is the one whose gifts center around hospitality and giving through making a loving presence. Mary is the one whose gifts involve studying at the feet of Jesus and sharing what she learns with others.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Proper C11 – 20-Jul-25”
The odd thing, often missed, about the story of "the Good Samaritan" is that it's not a story us helping out someone in need. It's about us, in our time of need being helped by someone we not only don't expect, but don't very much like.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation Proper C10 – for 13-Jul-25”
Why do we give? Some might say that we give because it makes us feel good. Others might say that it's enlightened care for others. Some might say that we give because we have and they don't. There are a lot of answers to the question, especially if we're honest.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Proper C9 – 6-Jul-25”
To be a Christian is simple to describe, but not easy to do. It takes a singular devotion of our time, our abilities, and our resources to see to it that the poor are helped, the hungry are fed, the suffering are comforted, those who are sick and in prison are visited, and the systems of this world that seek to keep things that way are challenged.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Proper C8 – 29-Jun-25”
Whatever the demons that had wrecked the life of the young man whom Jesus encountered were, Jesus was able to remove their influence from him and restore him to health and stability.
I won't say that Jesus had an easier job, but the demons we face today are scourges like poverty and homelessness, systems of oppression so embedded into our institutions that we sometimes think "That's just the way things are."… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Proper C7 – 22-Jun-25”
How do we remember Jesus; what he said, what he did, who he is? In the gospel reading for today Jesus says that it is the task of the Holy Spirit to declare the things we need to know.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Trinity Sunday C – 15-Jun-25”
Jesus says, "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father." and Jesus lived such a life of service to others and to God that that was true. For us, we can hope that whoever sees us can catch a glimpse of Jesus in our actions and our words.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Pentecost – 8-Jun-25”
There are a lot of things we can say about what it means to "Be one." One thing that might get lost in that discussion is that being one means we're all connected to each other.… Read the rest “Offering Meditation for Easter 7C – 01-June-25”