Evening: Psalms 94, 95; Matthew 17:14-21
Once, I saw a 20 minute play with only two lines – “Take it”, and “I don’t want it” – repeated with every imaginable inflection, tone of voice and physical expression. Sometimes I’d like to hear Jesus saying the Gospel words out loud. What sounds harsh in print, I re-imagine as gentle, full of compassion and promise. Or, alternatively, maybe the Gospel writers got Jesus wrong? Jesus is full of promises, not threats. Like, when John of Patmos, in Revelation, has a vision of a new heaven and a new earth … now there’s a promise made in the spirit of Jesus.
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