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"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814-1880)
““One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.”
- Luke 16:10
(Be attentive to the
“small things” today. They are where life is lived and they have consequences beyond our imagining.)
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JAS 5:9-12; PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 8-9, 11-12
MK 10:1-12
Jesus came into the district of Judea and across the Jordan.
Again crowds gathered around him and, as was his custom,
he again taught them.
The Pharisees approached him and asked,
"Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?"
They were testing him.
He said to them in reply, "What did Moses command you?"
They
replied,
"Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce
and dismiss her."
But Jesus told them,
"Because of the hardness of your hearts
he wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.
So they are no longer two but one flesh.
Therefore what God has joined together,
no human being must
separate."
In the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this.
He said to them,
"Whoever divorces his wife and marries another
commits adultery against her;
and if she divorces her husband and marries another,
she commits adultery."
USCCB Lectionary
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Mark 10:1-12 (On marriage and divorce)
In a culture that permitted a man to leave his wife for the slightest excuses (though not vice versa), Jesus' words on the seriousness of the
marriage commitment were ill-received in his day. He believes, however, that love relationships cannot grow without commitment. These words shall forever be challenging.
* What is the value of commitment in a love relationship? Do you believe that God is committed to you?
* Spend time thanking God for those people in your life who are committed to loving you.
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God and I: Exploring the Connections between God, Self and Ego, by Philip St. Romain, 2016 (2nd
ed.) ____________ Chapter 7: The Journey to Belonging: The Ego-God Relationship The Spirit-centered Ego Religious faith accommodates self-image for awhile, perhaps the entire life of many. It is common, for example, to hear religious people say things like,
“Who I really am is a child of God,” or “I am a princess of the Great King.” This indicates a shift toward God-as-center, to be sure, especially if it is not simply a conceptual affirmation, but is rooted in experience. The ancient biblical affirmation is that human beings are images of God. While this, too, is conceptual language that needs to be properly qualified, it does suggest something about identity and centeredness. If we are really images of God, then we are most ourselves when we are
imaging God. To do so, we need to be attentive to God, even more-so than to ourselves and our own self-image.
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