God is One, not separate from anything. Loving God is not separate from anything we do. Everything we do is how we love God.

A meditation on the healing of a blind beggar who cries out to Jesus, experiencing the encounter for ourselves.

Jesus talks about money a lot– for the simple reason that we’re addicted to it. It represents all we hang onto that keeps us from getting close to God, and from loving perfectly. To get free, sober up: practice letting go of your money.

In communion we share our vulnerability and dependence on God. At the table God lovingly brings us into a new relationship with others, a world of belonging and grace, that is the Kin-dom of God.

Jesus says to cut off your hand if it causes you to sin. Sounds awful, but maybe what he means is to become free of our grasping, free of the fear that who we are is not enough.

Jesus invites us to welcome the child–those among us without power, status or “importance,” for that is how we encounter God, who comes among us vulnerable and small. (God upends our social hierarchies!)

When Jesus says “Take up your cross and come with me” he doesn’t mean to have a certain religion; he means to love radically, loving the people we’re not “supposed” to love, and, even harder, the people we don’t want to love.

A gentile women opens up new possibilities with Jesus. This is the path of faith: not being perfect, but being willing to change, grow, and go on to new things.