Ruminations

There are times when I try to imagine life in Galilee. There are times when I try to imagine being in the Capernaum temple with Jesus on the sabbath. 

How wonderful it would be to hear Jesus Christ speak his words, to experience his syntax. Sitting in Mass I sometimes close my eyes briefly and try to create a scene hurriedly and vaguely. There is much artistic license and Hollywood spectacle but this can be helpful in unpacking the reading. Sometimes additional questions spring up and surprise me with a search for meaning, a search for deeper understanding. Each time I attend Mass there is an opportunity for further learning on how to be a better loving Christian, how to serve God with humility, charity, mercy, and compassion.

In between news about Hurricane Irene, hunting feral pigs from helicopters, searching for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's remaining forces, there is always time to be surprised by God.

God’s love is inexhaustible.

The search for connection between Holy Scripture and our daily lives is very important. Finding resonance in the readings can encourage greater love for God. Our faith does ask us to be cerebral, to use our minds to serve God, to use our minds to serve God. Our faith asks each of us to use our ganglions to form gangs of hope and love in ourselves and our communities.

Ebb and flow is natural in life; there is always advance and retreat. In the life of all Christians there are times of solitude, times of solicitude. There are times of vague desire to do good, there are times of gradual acceptance of loving God. Each Christian is allowed to learn when to speak, when to shut up.

I seek faith in a faithful place. I seek God in a loving place.