We May Not Be Able to Explain It

Thirsting For More

March 19, 2017 | Why did the Samaritan woman come to draw water from the well at noon, the hottest time of the day? Could it be that she was trying to avoid the early morning crowds? The whispers and comments of the other women of the village?

What are the places in our own lives where we are embarrassed, where we avoid interaction with others? What are the noon day wells of your life?

This week as we hear the story of the Samaritan woman at the well and invite you to imagine yourself in her shoes.

The Temptation of Jesus

A Moment of Clarity

February 26, 2017 | Matthew 17:1-9 | Think about the significance of being in a place where something happens to you that becomes a kind of benchmark, a defining moment that you return to in your memory. Sometimes you can even literary see more and more how you have been changed by what happened there in that place. Sometimes you have the need to go back to that place because it is there that you find strength to go on. You have learned something there that changed you — changed the way you look at your lives. Some of us might experience that defining moment as a wonder or a kind of positive experience, a mountaintop experience. Here something happens that takes us by surprise by its sudden clarity and brilliance, and we experience something we’ve never experienced before, something that takes our breath away. This Sunday we hear the reading from Matthew’s gospel of Jesus and the disciples up on the mountaintop. There in that moment, as the disciples gather with Jesus, something happens that will become their moment of clarity.