A Franciscan Blessing: May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart. Amen. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace. Amen. May God bless you with tears to shed...
To Love God as God loves you is a reach. Luckily God takes what I can muster.
Forgiveness...hmmm...I am a follower of Jesus...Jesus says..."the greatest commandment is to "Love one another"... Paul gives us detailed instructions of how to reconcile within the the Church. Jesus went out of his way to touch the untouchable. Meet (and eat) with the unsuitable. Forgiveness is Love in action. But, just part...
The subject this morning was Remembering. Liturgy is all about remembering. Strange to be talking about remembering as we kneel at the rail remembering something that happend 2000 years ago and changed your life. It's what you do with that memory, all memories, that is important.
