Lectionary blog: A suffering servant for God
Our calling is to trust God, even when that trust leads us into death.
Our calling is to trust God, even when that trust leads us into death.
We are invited to join Mary and her response to Jesus’ sacrifice.
God grieves when we are lost and celebrates when we are found.
Two sides of the same coin, they help us find our way to God.
But God, the mother hen, always seeks to protect us, the chicks.
Like Jesus, we can struggle with what it means to be a child of God.
The important question is what did the disciples say they saw?
It’s about being a servant people invited to share God with the world.
It’s an agenda that means we need to be making a difference now.
But we can become too focused on ourselves, meeting our own needs.
And it’s all a mystery and a miracle why God calls us, any of us.
To know God is to know the riches of God’s grace lavished on us.
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