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I have no idea how my computer works.  My engineer friends tell me about circuit boards and billions of on/off switches.  All I know is that when I push a couple of buttons, the thing begins to be useful.  I don’t know much about my car, either.  I turn the key, it starts.  My days are full of these mysteries:  my appliances do their work, and I don’t need to know how it happens.  Some of the Easter People continue to speculate about God’s miracles, imposing human limits as markers of their faith.  This weekend’s scriptures present Holy Mystery as a virtue, prodding us to accept that Creation continues despite our meager and mortal understanding.

In these weeks between Easter and Pentecost, we read from the Acts of the Apostles instead of the Old Testament.  We pick up the story in 2:14, just after the Holy Spirit had enlivened the Believers with celestial wind and fire and witnessing in all the known languages.  Were they drunk?  No; this is a mystery!  And Peter followed by introducing Jesus as the Christ to the crowd:  “God raised him up, having freed him from death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power.”(v.24)  The lesson tells us that it’s really OK not to know how all this happened.  It’s God’s; why should I need to know?

The author of the First Letter ascribed to St. Peter writes, ” By [God’s] great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…”(1:3)  That hope is a needed proclamation, especially in times when most of our cultural expectations are tipped over.  Jaded ones sojourning through the ages begin to doubt that there’s EVER a sunrise:  we need a little Easter, right this very minute.  The writer continues, “Although you have not seen [the Christ], you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy…”(1:8)

So here again is “Doubting” Thomas–he shows up every year on this Sunday after Easter because he has so many fans.  “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.”(John 20:26)  John has evidently heard in his faith community, just as I have in mine, the comments that “some things are beyond GOD”!  These otherwise faithful folks would be reluctant to admit to worldly blasphemy (those are old words, we don’t use them much), yet I have no other terms for fencing in the Holy.  Jesus later said to Thomas and the rest of us, “Have you believed because you have seen me?   Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.”(20:29)

The Enlightenment didn’t do any favors for our spirit-journeys.  We struggle to keep the mystery,  the parable, the analogy alive in this literal age.  There’s no good reason to dissect the Easter Story:  life is richer as we take it for what it is, God’s affirmation of steadfast omnipotence.

God Bless Us Everyone                     Horace Brown King

My musings upon lectionary scriptures for the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this spot on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com

The great Paschal Easter festival is upon us, the affirmation that beyond the ups & downs of penitence and prayer comes the annual celebration of God’s Steadfast Love.  “Arise, my love, and come away, for the winter is past” (Song of Solomon ).  In earlier days, catechumens preparing for reception into the Church would spend the Eve of Easter in a vigil of prayer and song;  “the night is departing, the day is approaching; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us gird on the armor of light”. (Romans 13)  Scriptures for Easter Sunday help us to sing about this audacious message, even in the turbulence of current events!

Jeremiah 31:1-6 are words of consolation from God to Israel, and we have appropriated them as spiritual successors.  I especially like the 4th verse, “Again you shall take your tambourines, and go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.”  It gives me comfort to remember that this was uttered in the dark days when Israel was in political decline and ethical laxity.  Even THEN, God’s desire was to express a steadfast love to these recalcitrant believers.  It musta been Beyond their Wildest Dreams.

The Apostle Paul spent a great many words attempting to bring a semi-systematic doctrine of Resurrection.  To the Colossians he wrote, “When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.” (3:4)  Impatient with waiting, expecting every day to hear that the Rapture has happened, members of the nascent Church were disappointed that the Evil Empire remained so powerful.  Paul & other preachers told their hearers to move on from earthly concepts to the visions “that are above”. (v.2)

John’s Gospel account of the First Easter (20:1-18) addresses all the fears and doubts of the gathered Church by the narrative of Jesus’ closest friends who couldn’t make much sense of the whole process.  Feminists, take heart!  Only Mary hung around to see what the new day would bring.  She had the greatest quantum leap of them all:  not many years ago, she wouldn’t have believed such intimacy possible.  This upside-down Easter even was Beyond her/their Wildest Dreams…  It reminds us that Holy Encounters come as a gift, whether or not we attempt to see them rationally.

Clayton J. Schmit says that “the resurrection upsets all expectations, and the only way to apprehend it is to come and see that things are different.”  (FEASTING on the WORD, A 2:371)  Many will attend worship this day defying God to make things “different”.   Others will come hoping to see life in a different & expanded mode.  Still, others will recognize that the Risen Christ has been hosting their souls for quite a while.  Whatever your perception, I wish you a Blessed Easter!

God Bless Us, Every One                     Horace Brown King

My thoughts about lections for the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this spot on Facebook, or at horacebrownking.com

One could almost draw a parallel between Palm Sunday and Christmas Eve:  the long-expected Messiah makes a very public entrance, and the Crowd (angels, shepherds) goes wild!  “Now, at last, thing’s ll be made right!”  Cynics will mock our optimism–just LOOK at Washington/world hunger/poisoned air & water–yet year after year a few of us have the audacity to maintain that “God’s steadfast love endures forever.”

In the gloom of Lent, Psalm 118 breaks in as a breath of fresh air!  This reading is a marvelous intrusion into the sadness of a weary world.   God’s steadfast love (hesed) becomes a frame (vv. 1,29) not only for the movement of this Psalm, but also for the movement of the stories of Jesus intersecting with the Crowd in their excursions through life and death.  Somewhere on this roller-coaster of Holy Week is a continual opportunity for Believers to shout, “Hosanna!  Blessed is  one who comes in the name of the Lord!”

Matthew’s account of Palm Sunday (21:1-11) brings a wealth of detail, some of which can get in our way.  It really doesn’t matter how many donkeys were involved, since Matthew is trying to refer back to Zechariah.  What DOES matter is that the Crowd recognizes in Jesus the fulfillment of what they had hoped for in a Messiah…  Well…  At this point, most would have desired a hero who would lead the militia against the Romans, who would Make Israel Great Again, who would give Jewish individuals a pride of being world-citizens; that’s what they hoped.  What they got was an earthquake:  “The who city was in turmoil”.  The Messiah shakes all our foundations and overturns our well-told aphorisms:  there’s more here than meets the eye…

The challenge to Palm Sunday congregations is to be open and receptive to how God is announcing mighty works, shaking the foundations even in our daily same old-same old.  What’s our place in this Great Parade?   We need a few perceptive ones to be cheerleaders:  “Hosanna!  Blessed is the One who comes in the Name of the Lord!”

God Bless Us, Every One                              Horace Brown King

My thoughts about lectionary scripture for the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this spot on Facebook, or at horacebrownking.com

One of the great values of Lectionary Scripture for Lent is that it’s filled with great stories!  This week we’ll look at two of them, plus a Pauline question.  Where I am, snow still dominates the lawns and curblines.   A testy flock of robins in our blooming pear tree has been phoning their travel agent.  We yearn to hear that The Winter King is really yielding to New Life:  “Oh, Lord, only you know…”

Ezekiel’s vision (chapter 37:1ff) has been celebrated in song:  the bones were VERY dry, but listeners were encouraged to “hear the word of the Lord”.  Believers are thus led to realize that New Life is more than resuscitation, it’s full-blown resurrection!  Ezekiel paints a picture of impossibility–life structures scattered, disjointed and antiquated.  BUT when God’s Breath (ruach) blows a heavenly breeze, the hopeless regain vitality and structure.  “Thus says the Lord God:  I am going to open your graves….I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live.”

Paul spins an antithesis between fleshly death and Spiritual life and peace (Romans 8:6).  Even in our daily dying we can anticipate a transformed reality through the compulsive energizing of God’s Spirit blowing through our “fleshless” persons.  “…he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.” (8:11)  CAREFUL–this text could degenerate into an “us & them” exercise, just as many have profaned Paul through the years!

BEST STORY EVER!  Read it ALL!  It’s John 11:1-45, the familiar tale of Lazarus.  Each time I read it there’s something that I haven’t seen before, at least not as clearly.   The actual resurrection of Jesus’ friend is almost a postscript to the life ‘n’ death questions and accusations which open the story:  Mary & Martha’s urgency, Jesus’ laid -back response, the sisters’ berating of Jesus, and (of course) Jesus’ opportunity to speak of Eternity.  “I am the resurrection and the life.  Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.  Do you believe this?”  As the naked bones of Ezekiel’s vision walked about, so did Lazarus rise, let go by human trappings.

These stories require very little explanation.  The common thread is that God’s Breath has been willed to enliven those who’ve given up to an impossible situation, to refill the lungs of those who’ve forgotten to breathe and of those who’ve drowned in despair.  Richard Rohr has suggested that the Holy Name of YAHWEH is a breathing exercise:  “Yah” being an inhalation, “Weh” an expulsion.  Breathe deeply!

God Bless Us, Every One                      Horace Brown King

Now that my computer is back, my musings on lectionary readings for the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this space on Facebook; and at horacebrownking.com

How often have I said it, either out loud or somewhere in my head?  Confronted with climate change, urban discouragement and poverty, mistrust of the strangers near us, and persistent racism, I often wish to be King…or better yet, GOD!  How quickly my good intentions turn to blasphemy, tempted by the myth of an immediate fix to wade in ‘way over my head.  One definition of Sin could be “defaming a holy process with a human insufficiency”.  This weekend, the first in Lent, reminds us of the tenacity with which our brokenness meets us: our evil deeds and half-spun plans bear witness to our wanderings on the way to perfection.

The reading from the Hebrew Scriptures is that of the Temptation of Adam & Eve, Genesis 2:15 – 3:7.  This is a great old story, with talking snakes and our ancestors, and how they all wrestled with obedience.  The snake’s question, “Did God really say that?”, has plagued us through the centuries:  are there loopholes?  is God withholding some great goodness from us?  how can God understand my hunger?  And so their “eyes were opened” and they made clothing to be a barrier to intimacy with the Creator.  (Despite what your Grandmother said, this isn’t about sex!)

The Epistle, Romans 5:12-19, isn’t an easy read.  It may be better presented with TWO readers alternating verses, acknowledging that each voice can be tempered with “on the other hand…”  The academics among us may well be encouraged to spin off a treatise on Original Sin and/or Atonement.  More to the point is an admission that sin remains strong long after our baptism…BUT this doesn’t have to lead to death, because  “just as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all.”

The Gospel, Matthew 4:1-11, introduces the 40 days of Lent with Jesus joining us in the wilderness.  Just after the high of Baptism and the heavenly voice confirming his Son-ship, he’s challenged to trust God and so be himself.  Full of Holiness, Jesus was tempted to be relevant (stones to bread could end world hunger!  “Son, on your way home, pick up a handful of gravel so we can have croutons with the salad”), to be spectacular (jumping safely from the Temple roof will get good press coverage and bring lots of people closer to God), and to be powerful (I could do a lot of good  if I were king of the world).  If only I could!   Then God could retire, since the Kingdom would be complete!…’cept for that tempter-guy…  Sin isn’t just the presence of Evil Things, it’s also trust in Incomplete Things.

I like the story about the fella watching a flock of sparrows in his driveway, one blustery mid-winter night.  The birds were obviously trying to keep warm, and Our Hero thought, “If I open the garage door, they could fly in and keep out of the bitter wind.”  And so he did; but no sparrow came into the relative warmth of the garage.  “Now”, said the man, “if only I could become a sparrow like them, maybe I could lead some of them into safety.”  This is the Gospel of our Lord:  Thanks be to God.

God Bless Us, Every One                       Horace Brown King

My thoughts about lectionary readings for the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this spot on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com

Ask any three people to describe an elephant…or a marching band…or a baseball game.  Most will emphasize something that evaded the others, causing us to wonder if they had observed the same object or event.  My own household encounters the same phenomena:  the Guy says that something is red, or blue; the Woman says that it’s lavender or cerise or magenta…  A vehicle in our neighborhood has survived many fender-benders through transplants–a new door, a new rocker panel, a new trunk.  Each of these seems to fit on the vehicle, yet all are different colors!  If the car were to be used in a felony, witnesses would contradict each other for days!

Readings for Transfiguration Sunday point to an intimacy with the Divine which is too encompassing for verbal description.  We begin with the story in Exodus (24:12-18) of when Moses was summoned up Sinai to receive the ten basic commandments for life within a holy community.  Moses entered the cloud at the top, and was hidden from sight for a LONG time (“40 days & 40 nights”: twice what you can count on your fingers and toes).  He never told all that he saw; but when he returned to the waiting Hebrews his face glowed and he was obviously changed.  Where can we see glory?

What stories we can tell!  We yearn to pass on these tales which have shaped our own lives to our grandchildren–but sometimes they become lost.  Near the beginning of the Second Letter attributed to St. Peter we read, “For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty.  For he received honor and glory from God the Father when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory, saying, ‘This is my Son, my Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.’  We ourselves heard this voice come from heaven, while we were with him on the holy mountain.” (1:16-18)  The Apostle knew what he’d seen and experienced, and how this had affected him.  Is there some way, then, to affirm this with others?  Where can we see glory?

The account of how Peter, James & John were overwhelmed by the intimacy of God’s Presence on the mountaintop is in all three synoptics.  Matthew’s version (17:1-9) which we read today is especially concerned with links to Moses and the Sinai experience.  The Church has long told this to connect Jesus to the Law (Moses) and the Prophets (Elijah).  Not only does the encounter solidify Jesus as “my Son, my Beloved”, but it begins to open the disciples’ eyes to see a holy light within and despite the chaos soon to come.  Did they all see the same thing?  Where can we see glory?

We can only imagine the post-encounter conversations:  “What did YOU see?  What do you think God meant?”  That’s why the Church is necessary, as a common forum for us to share and interpret our visions.  The details are often debatable, and the exactness can be likewise hazy.  But the centrality remains:  that God’s remarkable and bright Presence overflows then and now on a hilltop near you!  O Lord, give us eyes to see.

God Bless Us, Every One                  Horace Brown King

My thoughts about scripture readings assigned for the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this spot on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com

I love jigsaw puzzles!  They’re just a box of messy pieces ’til I spread them out; and then the corners are identified, and pretty soon the frame develops.  There’re two schools of where to go next, both of them valid.  Many folks like to assemble an identifiable block: a red barn, a white church-steeple, etc.   My Dad always searched for the next piece on the tier in process; and I too like this kind of order.  No matter:  when the picture is complete, there’s an artistic-almost-holy satisfaction in owning its “done-ness”.   Look there!  All those pieces came together and made something!  This weekend’s scriptures are for those who believe (or want to believe) that they’re on the road to Completeness, by God’s Grace.

People can really get bogged down in Leviticus:  is it OK to eat ostrich?  When should I consider stoning my children?  Yet the multitude of instances named are all to acknowledge God’s Presence in daily living, in our internal integrity and outward relationships.  Chapter 19 begins with God addressing Moses, “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them:  You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy…”  The People of a Divine Image are expected to be on the way to completeness, being Whole in body, mind & spirit.

Paul’s Letter to the Corinthian congregations reprimands them for their brokenness.  He tells them that it’s not Apollos or himself, but Jesus alone who has cast the footprint for the community.  Whatever super-structure develops must be compatible with Christian teachings, as the Indwelling Spirit resides in such a temple.  Be intentional about your daily church-life, he says, “for all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future–all belong to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.”  (I Corinthians 1:21-23)

The Gospel is another installation of the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:38-48.  Jesus is taking ancient authority (“you have heard it said…”) and bringing it to himself within the contemporary society (“but I say to you…”).  Pretty radical stuff:  turning the other cheek, going the second mile, generosity to all; loving the enemy, praying for your oppressor…  These, of course, are undoable without a dose of external Grace.  The call here is for the remnant of Israel and the community just beginning to solidify around Jesus to display the patience and wholeness of those who know God.  “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

“Jesus himself is never upset at sinners.  He’s only upset with people who don’t think they’re sinners….The moment you become whole and holy is when you can accept your shadow self, or, to put it in moral language, that is when you can admit your sin..” (Richard Rohr, in THINGS HIDDEN)  Being Complete is a journey, a sacred process.  But we have a valid Guide for the route, whatever the terrain and the detours may be.

God Bless Us, Every One                        Horace Brown King

My musings on the lectionary scripture to be read in the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this space on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com

I’m inundated with choices.  Just turning on the computer yields a whole series of menus (dashboard), glassy-eyed checkers at the cash register ask me about paper or plastic, the weekly entertainment supplement describes a deluge of places and events.  My server asks questions about beverage, then hands me TWO booklets of choices!  Sometimes I long for college-food meals; the only choice was Take It or Leave It.  Thomas Oden once said, “Choice demands negation.”  This weekend’s scriptures may speak simplicity to modern folks drowning in too much!

Deuteronomy presents parental advice of Moses to the Hebrews on the doorstep of the Promised Land (30:15-20).  “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.  Choose life so that you and your descendants may live…”  An important note is that Divine Preference is NOT for dead ends but is an active hope for restoration!  God hopes that this People, this community, will make the right choice.  Today’s worshipers resist having our menu sliced to an on-off button because it causes us to re-examine the myth of our autonomy.

We’re always a bit surprised, St.Paul tells the Corinthian churches, that God pays so much attention to our daily choices!  “For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving according to human inclinations?” (I 3:3)   An image presents itself of primary school kids being quiet only because Teacher is hanging over their shoulders.  Not yet ready for universe-changing equations, their learning-moment  involves choosing acceptable behavior.

Didn’t you always hate it when Teacher made the WHOLE CLASS miss recess because Jimmy was raising a ruckus?   Readers of the Sermon on the Mount need to understand that these directives were issued to the Community of Faith, albeit composed of individual members.  As Matthew 5:21-37 is read, hearers should see the Greater Picture:  that is, not as alternative mores, but as BETTER ones.   “You have heard it said…but I say to you…”  The existing ways are OK, but there are refinements.  Anger and lust and empty promises are more than legal infractions, they cripple and divide the People of God.

I always resonate with Robert Frost–                                                                                            I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence:                                    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–I took the road less traveled by…                          And that has made all the difference.

God Bless Us, Every One                  Horace Brown King

My thoughts about lectionary scriptures for the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this space on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com

Many Christians today believe that the rest of the world has never been so corrupt, so self-centered.  Yet the Lessons read this upcoming weekend illustrate the maxim that “the more things change, the more they stay the same”.  Stories here suggest that the People of God of antiquity share the same fuzzy logic and arrogant hypocrisy as our contemporary faith communities.  Me too, I’m afraid.  What about you?

The third section of the book of Isaiah is said to have been created sometime between 538 and 515 BC, during the Persian period.  Recently restored Israel claimed devotion to Yahweh in their words, “as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God” (58:7).  But actually–“you serve your own interest on your fast day, and oppress all your workers.  Look, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to strike with a wicked fist.”  There’s really a gap here:  piety is useless when divorced from justice and righteousness.  “True fasting involves dealing with those conditions, situations, and people that are ethically corrupting and corrupted, for the sake of the oppressed individual and for the common good.”  (Carol J. Dempsey, FEASTING on the WORD, A 1:316)  Godly fasting involves loosing the bonds of injustice, undoing the thongs of the yoke, sharing bread with the hungry, clothing the tattered and taking care of your extended family.  “Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly…[the Lord] will say, Here I am.”

St. Paul continues his irony in his lover’s quarrel with the Corinthian congregations (2:1-12).  He tells them that they may be “wise”, but that God’s wisdom is much different.  Congregations who buy into the world’s understanding of wisdom and power will cease to be the Church.  (Do you know of any congregations who’ve lost their meaning because they’ve sold out to “good business practices”?)  “My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.” (v.4)   Will someone please light a candle?

What’s that you say, Jesus?  WE’re the light of the world?  (Matthew 5:13-20)  You want us to get involved, to be transparent in our holy ethic of caring for the hapless and “those” people?  But they might be TERRORISTS!  Besides, we know our way around our prison cells in the dark:  a candle would show us the cracks in our safety and the leaks in our comfort…  The hearers of the Sermon on the Mount remembered being once taught that Israel was chosen to bring God’s Light to the rest of the world.  “It only takes a spark to get a fire going…”

These are intense days.  Darkness has eaten the daylight, and even the stars can’t give us direction in the overcast.  If anything can pierce the haze of our despair, it’s the rays of God-light which continue to force their way through.

God Bless Us, Every One                     Horace Brown King

My meditations on lectionary passages for the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this space on Facebook; or at horacebrownking. com

I was born a cynic, I guess.  Seven decades of observing and working with the human condition haven’t improved my outlook a bit.  I’d like to trust society to be that perfect place of God’s imagination, but wars & rumors of wars abound.  I fantasize about picket fences and birdhouses, about rainbows day after day.  My poesy drifts toward the “alabaster cities undimmed by human tears”.  Tell that to the grizzled and aged guy who shelters in the doorway of the Post Office and asks for money.  Tell that to the crippled guy who got suckered into military service in Afghanistan to “protect” the investments of oil investors.  ‘Nuf complaining:  what does God expect of ME?

By the time the prophet Micah gets to the day’s text (6:1-8), he’s previously spoken eloquently about God’s indictment of the prevailing culture.  The powerful have coveted fields and houses and have seized them, violence–police dogs & water cannon?–has been sent to control the masses,  and leaders sell allegiance to the highest bidder.  Many worshipers have called for a religious revival:  longer prayers and more expensive sacrifices.  To this, God replies through Micah, “He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”  Three demanding expectations which remind us that we need to polish our ethics.

Paul comments to the Corinthian community of believers that all that glitters is not gold (I,1:18-31).  Wisdom and enlightenment don’t cut it, in the long run.  The rewards of the culturally elite look pretty good, but they won’t last.  Again, the alternative to the status quo is presented as valuable to the Church: “God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing the things that are.”(v.28)  To me, this is walking humbly with my God.

Charles James Cook asks, “Who can survive in attempting to live into the spirit of the Beatitudes?…we are struck with their poetic beauty and, at the same time, overwhelmed by their perceived impracticality….We admire the instruction, but we fear the implications of putting the words into actual practice…To be pure in spirit, peaceful, merciful, and meek will get you nowhere in a culture grounded in competition and fear.” (FEASTING on the WORD, A 1:308)  Some have translated the word ‘Blessed’ as being happy.  I also like the word ‘content’.  At any rate, the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-12) takes away a lot of pressure to fly faster and higher, to collect trophies and to count scalps.

You won’t be surprised to know that from now until Lent we’ll be examining (and be examined by) the ethics of the God-fearing.  Joan Chittister, the British contemplative, asks, “What needs to be changed in us?  Anything that makes us the sole center of ourselves.  Anything that deludes us into thinking that we are not simply a work in progress….We must begin to do life, to be with people, to accept circumstances, to bring good to evil in ways that speak of the presence of God in every moment.”

God Bless Us, Every One                   Horace Brown King

My commentary on passages assigned by the Revised Standard Lectionary for the upcoming weekend can be found every Tuesday at this space on Facebook; or at horacebrownking.com