Luke 6:27-38
Epiphany 7 - Year C
Epiphany - Last
Genesis 45:3-11,15
Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40
1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50
Luke 6:27-38
Epiphany - Transfiguration
Exodus 34:29-35
Psalm 99
2 Corinthians 3:12 - 4:2
Luke 9:28-36, (37-43)
What a choice for the day. Just another evidence that there is nothing common about common. Even a revised common doesn't get us all the way to common.
But this also gives us an opportunity to play between passages we might not otherwise set alongside one another.
Luke 6:27-38
Luke 9:28-36, (37-43)
Loving others = transfiguration of self
Loving enemies = transfiguration of self
Not judging = transfiguration of self
Forgiving = transfiguration of self
Giving generously = transfiguration of self
The pattern is established. This is the way we participate in the largest of exoduses or journeys - that to life in all its fullness.
Looking for the outcome of living lightly? -- follow the teachings, the way.
Enjoy this handful (five digits) of a new pentalogue as you participate in them. If the destination is worth enjoying, so is the travel.
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1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50
2 Corinthians 3:12 - 4:2
We do not invest the future, we sow the present into the freedom of GOD to see what fruit will be brought forth, thirty-fold, sixty-fold, or one-hundred-fold.
As we honorably deal with the hand that has been dealt us (metaphorically, the hand of Adam/Eve) we anticipate living an image of their ancestral descendant, Messiah Jesus.
This present-to-future is the movement of the Spirit that is GOD's freedom. In this movement is the corollary that the veil is removed that we might see clearly how we came along the path that once was quite mysterious to us. This veil is lifted. And from one degree to the next we find another veil of the meaning of the past lifted.
Invest today that tomorrow might grow and you'll get to see a new path through the past. This is fun and maturing stuff. Enjoy it as you go - revel in seeing GOD with you as you go - sort of like backing into the future by looking in the mirrors rather than over your shoulder.
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