This morning I am in the office early and I look out my window and view the sun rising over the Napa hills. I am blessed!
Wishing you a good week ahead.
Ultimately, doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbling with God means trusting that God alone is the soil for my roots, God alone is the true foundation. -Michael E. Lee
“The Benefit of Doubt,” Varina Buntin Willse
I smile when I think about the way Jesus responded to his disciples when he was trying to teach them things. With deep sighs, he would marvel at how much they—the ones closest to him, the ones most devoted to the cause—missed. The people more able to absorb the fullness of Jesus’s message were the ones he advocated for directly; everyone else was enthralled but largely confused.
This is in part because Jesus was not exactly direct. When teaching, he speaks in parables whose meanings are hard to discern and easy to misconstrue. Why? I think this is another, more subtle form of Jesus’s advocacy. Refusing to spoon-feed answers, he impels his followers to think for themselves so that they might act according to an understanding and a set of principles that they have developed rather than one dictated by a person in authority. Jesus is the reigning champion of critical thinking.
