Can we allow Jesus’ metaphors into our imagination?
Season after Pentecost | 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
Isaiah 1:1, 10-20; Psalm 50:1-8, 22-23; (Genesis 15:1-6; Psalm 33:12-22;) Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16; Luke 12:32-40
Jesus is the thief, and the powers of this world own the house in which we’re waiting.
Why do we forgive him so much more easily than migrants today?
Famously, Obama's term was originally premised on hope. Just as famously, his own faith has been mocked and doubted. I wonder how much of each he has left?
Hope is the content of faith. Hope is the adopted son, the grafted inheritor. If there are to be, as with Abraham’s descendants, innumerable stars and grains of sands, it will be through this boy.
"Belief is not the 'substance of things hoped for.' Faith is."