This wonderful gift of spiritual nourishment and spiritual life is something that God has been trying, in different ways, to gift us all for a long time.

"Not Another Bread Passage...Please!"

Bread is simple to make with a few ingredients: flour, water, yeast, and salt. Let it rise, bake it until crusty. Voila! Bread.

When is a fish not a fish, and bread that we take not bread to eat? 

We may have had a great crowd of children, but unlike the great crowds Jesus encountered so long ago, these "sheep" have had excellent "shepherds", and I hope they remember the lessons learned this week. 

Did they display, demonstrate a standard of behavior for others to follow, or would they ponderously crash into people, knocking them off their perch, a catalyst for change?

I was so distracted by the contingency stuff, the baggage I carried, that I neglected to remember the important part, the reason for going out in the first place.

for if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has

Faith calms the storm in our lives when we are tempted to say, like the disciples, "Jesus, God, Teacher and Healer: do you not care that we perish under the weight of the troubles of the world?"

One person's nasty weed is another's beautiful bloom. Only love makes the difference.

In the box was a much loved Bible. Every page has been read, many annotated with one woman's insights, joys, fears and struggles. This Holy Book has been made more so by witness.

Whatever happened to keeping Sunday as a Holy Sabbath?

Trinity Sunday is one of the most difficult concepts to quantify, qualify, and explain.

If we listen, the Holy Spirit will guide us to use the right vocabulary, even if we do not use words at all.

Ours are the eyes... the hands... the feet. We are called to serve

Can I honestly say there is hope for the world when I turn on the television news or listen to the radio and hear violence, death, and destruction?

In order to have any hope for the future at all, we need awareness of the present

The shepherd leads us out of the pen, into the troubled world.

Hope, as an idea, a concept, threads its way through every element in our lives, so how can there be people who feel without any hope at all?

It's been a quiet week in Lake Galilee, Nazareth, Jesus' hometown, out there on the edge of the world.