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We're, all of us, like the fig tree in the parable that Jesus tells. Sometimes we need a second, third, or even fourth chance to show what God intended for us. Thankfully, like that fig tree, God is the God of second chances.… Read the rest “Table Meditation (Gospel) for 24-Mar-19”
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Jesus says to Jerusalem, "How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings." That desire to gather God's children together, even when they're not all behaving very well, continues today.… Read the rest “Table Meditation (Gospel) for 17-Mar-19”
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Sometimes, like when Jesus was in the desert, we are hungry for physical nourishment. Other times, we hunger for more than just something to fill our stomachs. The small amount of bread and drink we have in front of us is not enough to slake our physical hunger or thirst, but it is more than enough, in symbolizing Jesus' own body and blood, to fill the spiritual hunger that gnaws at us in this world.… Read the rest “Table Meditation for 10-Mar-19”
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The gospel reading for today warns us that we should not seek to help someone else with a fault we perceive in them before we first look at the faults we have of our own and deal with them.… Read the rest “Table Meditation for 03-Mar-19”
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Sometimes it's not so easy loving even those we care about, yet Jesus tells us to love even those who wish us harm. It's not easy, but it may be a little more easy for us if we remember that here at this table, we experience God's mercy and underserved love every week.… Read the rest “Table Meditation for 24-Feb-16”
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Jeremiah talks about a tree planted by the water in the verses for today. He says that this tree is full of life and never ceases to bear fruit. As difficult as it may be to think so, he's talking about us -- us when we're connected to the life-giving stream of God's love and grace.… Read the rest “Table Meditation (OT) for 17-Feb-19”
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I think we might read the Beatitudes wrongly. I don't think that Jesus is saying that we are blessed because of the circumstances he lists (anymore than we should consider ourselves blessed because we aren't facing those circumstances).… Read the rest “Table Meditation (Gospel) for 10-Feb-19”
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There are times, in our relationship with Jesus, where God's perfection and the sense of our own sinfulness collide and, like Peter, all we can say is "Lord, you should have nothing to do with me.… Read the rest “Table Meditation (Gospel) for 3-Feb-19”
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Jesus had to break it to his home congregation that the realm of God wasn't only for them; not for just an inside group. That's always been true and it's still true today.… Read the rest “Table Meditation (Gospel) for 27-Jan-19”
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Jesus said, in our gospel reading for today, that the scripture was being fulfilled in their hearing. He meant a lot by saying that, but one thing he meant was that they would see God doing exactly what God had promised in that scripture.… Read the rest “Table Meditation (Gospel) for 20-Jan-19”