Last week I used the image of a jigsaw puzzle to talk about how the story of Jesus healing the woman with a bad back touched on several aspects of the larger picture Luke was trying to describe and interlocked with both previous stories and next stories in Luke. I mentioned it contained images of Jesus’Continue reading “Proper 17, 2022”
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Proper 16 2022
Reading scripture, especially the way we read it on Sunday mornings can feel a lot like working a jigsaw puzzle. When you just dump it out on the table half of the pieces are face down and you can’t see anything until you turn it over. You can immediately begin to discern certain prominent colors. This green pieceContinue reading “Proper 16 2022”
3 Pentecost 2021
There is no greater act of faith than to make your living off the land, farming, ranching, fishing, etc. For most of humanity’s existence this is how we lived, first as hunter gatherers, then by planting and raising livestock or going out to sea to fish. Only gradually, as we became more efficient at producingContinue reading “3 Pentecost 2021”
The Rev. Beverly Patterson 