When we lose our saltiness (Matthew 5:13-20)
We can lose that which feels most dear and essential to us: our health, a job, a relationship.
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The Gospel reading from Matthew poses what seems like an impossibility: “If salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored?” But the thing is, we do lose our saltiness. We can lose that which feels most dear and essential to us, that which makes us us: our health, a job, a relationship.
