25th September 2022 Year C – Pentecost 16 “You Can’t Take it with You”
What to do with a car door!
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The ‘Rough stuff’ in our lives matters to God God is interested in what is happening in our souls now and wants to help us deal with distractions that separate us from wholesome lives.
The wilderness is a space where we unearth our innate potential and begin to transform into the individuals we are destined to become.
Lent offers a transformative space that encouraged deep reflection, growth, and connection to a broader spiritual reality.
In this time may we emerge from our wilderness stronger, wiser and ever closer to the heart of God.
Following Jesus is not an easy choice. It may require us to make Jesus our ‘Top Priority’ and be willing to give up anything for God.
However it may not be an ‘either’ /’or’ choice but finding a balance in our commitment and making Jesus the foundation of all we are trying to do so we can say “Amen”.
We would all like to be the Good Samaritan in this story.
But to be honest we sometimes are more like the priest, or Levite and even the bandits.
Maybe we are even the man lying in the ditch, beaten and bruised and calling out for help.
Jesus – the God of love, draws near and binds the wounds in humility and gives hope.
After instigating a report on poverty and disadvantage, the Bishop of Liverpool was described as a Maxist, a socialist and a communist. He responded by saying that he was simply reading the gospel of Luke.
Luke emphasizes the compassion of Jesus highlighting mercy, equality and inclusion and showing bias towards the poor and disadvantaged.
What we most long for is what we most fear to find. What if we did, indeed, see the face of God?
The season of Lent calls us to confront our frailty, fallibility and fallenness and yearn for God.
The one we have longed for and feared to seek has already and always been seeking us.
May we be willing to be found.