Spoke to all three sisters yesterday. C has tech/financial foul up. D and L went to dinner together. All sounded content.
DJ and family are driving home from Fla today. Then wife B will travel to Germany Wednesday. I only know of one senior who travels as much as she does. God bless her. And grant safe journeys to them all.
I watched tv a lot on Easter: Jesus’ life, Fox News lost airman coverage, original Wizard of Oz. Odd we did not finish reading Easter story in John, as I thought we would. We did read it in Matthew midweek, but yesterday would have seemed more appropriate, celebratory. All an itch, a regret for something lost in the past, a religious attention or discipline that I feel too lazy to pursue these days. I should say God forgive and help me, but I doubt my sincerity and willingness to change.
All of us have moved away from our early, religious ties and none of our descendants have even dipped their toes into the living waters. Except I note Niece J’s flirtation with Catholicism a few years back, with her insistence of her whole family’s participation. Too bad it ended; maybe she stumbled on the Fifth commandment with her vicious treatment of her mother. I sound judgmental, and I’m spreading family gossip, but the relationship generates my pity, angst, and compassion.
Might be good to revisit Jesus’ Parable of the Sower found in Matthew 13:1–23, Mark 4:1–20, Luke 8:4–15 and the extra-canonical Gospel of Thomas.
Enough said, except
Lord help us all find our way back to you, the Living Water, the source of pity and compassion. IJN
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