It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim and heaven and you will get earth thrown in: aim at earth and you will get neither.
- C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
("Oh this world is dear to me. But Heaven is my home." Randy Newman)
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1 KGS 11:4-13; Ps 106:3-4, 35-37, 40
MK 7:24-30
Jesus went to the district of Tyre.
He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it,
but he could not escape notice.
Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him.
She came and fell at his feet.
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth,
and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.
He said to her, “Let the children be fed first.
For it is not right to take the food of the children
and throw it to the dogs.”
She replied and said to him,
“Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.”
Then he said to her, “For saying this, you may go.
The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed
and the demon gone.
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Reflection on the Scriptures |
- thoughts on 1 Kings 11: 4-13
Worshipping many gods instead of one. Solomon breaks his covenant with God but God magnanimously spares Solomon what he technically deserves. This story seems familiar to me and my experience of God. I am welcomed back and loved generously with many gifts even when I fall victim to and choose to worship many gods…the gods of productivity, of reputation, of
self-centeredness, of insecurity, of jealousy (the list could go on).
- by Co.leen Chiacchere
Revelations of Divine Love
- by Julian of Norwich
Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 70
"Above the Faith is no goodness kept in this life, as to my sight, and beneath the Faith is no help of soul; but in the Faith, there willeth the Lord that we keep us"
In all this blessed Shewing our good Lord gave understanding that the Sight should pass: which blessed Shewing the Faith keepeth, with His own good will and His grace. For He left with me neither sign nor token whereby I might know it, but He left with me His own blessed word in true understanding, bidding me full mightily that I should believe it. And so I do,—Blessed may He be!—I believe that He is our Saviour that shewed it, and that it is the Faith that He shewed: and therefore I believe it,
rejoicing. And thereto I am bounden by all His own meaning, with the next words that follow: Keep thee therein, and comfort thee therewith, and trust thou thereto.
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