Saturday, 12/6/14
Often the readings rearrange themselves in your mind to fit
the present. Let me take up three passage from today’s readings.
First, let’s look at the following country life images. They
are so calm and beautiful:
The lamb will graze in
spacious meadows; the oxen and the asses that till the ground, and they will eat
silage tossed to them with shovel and pitchfork.
In contrast look at the lack of harmony in the people
milling about Jesus. He saw them as
“troubled and abandoned like sheep without a shepherd.”
Yesterday I had conversations with two young ladies who were
troubled by people who were “troubled and
abandoned like sheep without a shepherd.”
One young lady who is in nurse’s training, as part of hr
course, has just spent a month working with the mentally handicapped. I asked
her if she would like to work in that field, and she said, “No, the system is
so corrupt. They put these people out on the streets in need of expensive medications,
with no employment for earning the price of them; so they necessarily end up
incarcerated.”
The other young lady was interviewed for helping prisoners
gain high school diplomas. She said that the tons of regulations stifle the
teachers. Instead of letting them fit the lessons to the talents and available
time of individual students, they bind them to make each student work his or
way through a massive textbook.
Now, Jesus could find a way to get around those crippling
regulation. Isn’t is up to these two young ladies to be or Lord’s channels for
straightening things out.
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