On not cutting off our nose to spite our face

Morning: Psalm 31; Ezra 3:1-13; I Corinthians 16:10-24

Evening: Psalm 35; Matthew 12:22-32

Ever prune a tree and realize you’re about to cut the branch your ladder rests on?  Ever inadvertently clean a floor around yourself? Ever venture into danger with no escape?  When your actions destroy your future, your house is divided against itself.  Think of divisive rhetoric; or blaming others to save face; or minimizing the proven climate crisis.  Similarly, by cursing or turning away from God, you cut yourself off from the very source of your own nourishment and well-being.  Getting our act together as a society is being divided no longer – finding common cause.  We can do this.