It also spurred my first book, West Nile Diary, One Couple's Triumph Over a Practice By Practice: The art of everyday faith (The Preacher and Me Book 1. $
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Plus a few other people. These days, I'm growing up in a small white house on the Prairie, in the middle of a green, green yard in the global community of New Normal. With a parrot often squawking in the background, and my recovering husband beside me, I wrestle beauty and brokenness; words and the Word--and practice and plead to bring both of those to the world, for God's glory.
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English Choose a language for shopping. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. Alexa Actionable Analytics for the Web. Last week we heard Peter proclaim Jesus as the Christ 8: The disciples following Jesus to Jerusalem believed they were walking side by side with the Messiah. They were right; but they were wrong about the kind of Messiah Jesus was. They saw glory up ahead of them and they were arguing about the place settings for their thrones.
They needed to be taught that the power Jesus will inaugurate as Messiah will take the shape of service. I wonder if the leaders of the early church, for whom Mark wrote, were already claiming rank and privilege? He may have written his gospel to remind them what Jesus taught about their responsibility: It also addresses other people in charge: Power easily goes to our heads. We need regular reminders that we are servants, whether we wear pectoral crosses, clerical collars, business suits, have ecclesial titles on our doors, or stand in front of a class of unformed minds.
The power to plan and design our futures is very tenuous indeed. The disciples seeking position of authority and recognition will soon be frustrated in those plans.
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Jesus is instructing them that they need to shift their attention elsewhere, to an investment in the future that will not fail them. They need to follow their master and do as he did, use any authority they might receive in service to others. Who is the "greatest? They were property of their fathers and so were exceedingly vulnerable. The disciple is to be just like that, Jesus says, "welcome the child" into their own lives — accept being vulnerable and therefore dependent on God.
Still more — instead of seeking out and serving the high-placed and important in society and church, the disciple is to seek out the company of the poor and no-accounts of the world, the insignificant — the "children. We could begin looking in the direction he points today — to the least. The gospel can be so contradictory; so opposite to our ideals and values; so impractical. For example, many airlines allow a person to go online 24 hours before the scheduled departure of a flight to choose seats. Heaven help the person who jumps ahead of others on a supermarket line, at a buffet, or a movie line.
James gives us a vivid description of our human condition and our evil tendencies in our second reading. But there is no teaching without the grace to accept the teaching — as impossible as the instruction may seem. Today the phrase that speaks to me appears in the opening verse, "Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey If we feel stuck in a place, attitude or spiritual disposition, we are reminded that, with Jesus, we can leave that place of "stuck-ness. We can go in the direction of becoming fuller, more complete disciples.
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That is the phrase that speaks to me today, Jesus and his disciples — "began a journey. Rather than being disheartened at our incompleteness, we can take heart. We may not be "there" yet, but we are in the process of becoming the disciples Jesus has called us to be. We have begun our journey and we are not struggling to get there on our own because, as Mark reminds us, we have Jesus with us as we travel — on "the journey. Here we hear a grace-filled word and receive a meal that helps us take the next steps towards being the disciples Jesus has in mind, those who, "shall be the least of all and the servant of all.
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Wink also devotes a chapter to the power of intercessory prayer. He states, "The message is clear: This is the politics of hope. Even a small number of people, firmly committed to the new inevitability on which they have fixed their imaginations, can decisively affect the shape the future takes. These shapers of the future are the intercessors, who call out of the future the longed-for new present. Wink goes on to say that we are not demanding enough in our prayer, that "Biblical prayer is impertinent, persistent, shameless, indecorous.
It is more like haggling in an oriental bazaar. He writes, "We are required by God to haggle with God for the sake of the sick, the obsessed, the weak, and to conform our lives to our intercessions.
But we must not try to bear the sufferings of the creation ourselves.