I love the poetry but it disturbs me deeply. It’s something about seeing … and seeing where you belong. Elizabeth sees only honour and blessing and joy in her kinswoman’s womb. But Mary is more canny. Of all her people’s heroes she might have identified with, Mary claims kinship with Hannah and echoes the song …
Monthly Archives: May 2000
Sunday Week 6 of Easter Year B
Everything we’ve just heard should cut off, once and for all, any avenue of escape for us. Because I think we all want to escape from being loved by God. Sounds stupid, I know, but everyone I know does it. I catch myself doing it all the time. It usually starts when I’ve disappointed myself—done …
Monday Week 5 of Easter
I have to admit that I’m secretly pleased with that picture of Paul getting all discombobulated at being taken for a god—and Hermes indeed because he was the one doing all the talking. Very telling. All we know of Paul are his words—and we have plenty of them. His own words, the words of people …
Sunday Week 5 of Easter Year B
“Remain in me or wither.” Runner number 19933 in today’s Bay To Breakers says that this morning’s gospel gives incontrovertible evidence that Jesus knew all along that he was God. Why? How? Well Jesus says, “I am de vine…” Groan … Runner 19933 lives in my house and is prone to bad jokes. Luckily for …
Sunday Week 3 of Easter Year B
My life ended that morning. Right about the time he called for something to eat. If you’d asked me I’d have said it ended a few days before when they arrested him. Or, being more honest, when I ran away; ran away and left him and left the others and left my dream of myself …