Colourful Dreamer

Here we are on the edge of Lent. Our last week in ordinary time or epiphany (depending on which calendar you are using). And we continue in Mark’s faced past story. The story is moving rapidly. “Now is the time. God’s kingdom has come.” (Mark 1:15) After the intimate healing of Peter’s mother-in-law, and then praying in wilderness in the night, Jesus leaves Capernaum to preach to all the towns of Galilee. Not all were healed, but his mission is to all in Galilee. On his way he encounters a man with a skin disease. It is a strange story. The translations vary – is Jesus filled with deep seated compassion or anger? It is intimate, Jesus touches the man. He encounters people face to face. And it raises all kinds of questions about what Jesus is ordering people not to tell? At the end Jesus and the man trade places and Jesus returns to the wilderness, where it all began, and the man is restored to his whanau (family) and community and is free to enter any town he likes. Healing stories...

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Trinity Sunday! A gift of a Sunday. An invitation. How do we make sense of the Doctrine of the Trinity? Why even bother trying? Because both Paul and John in today’s readings say that how we understand the Triune God shapes our lifestyle. Who we understand God to be shapes how we respond to God in our everyday lives. All the earliest theologians developed their theologies, including their theology of Trinity, so that people might know God more fully as the author of all goodness and love, and that we might know that we are the object of that goodness and love. They wanted people to know that God the creator and source of all being will not give up on us no matter what we do. They wanted people to know that the Eternal Word became one of us so that we might know we are made in the image of God and become God.   And they wanted people to know that as the Spirit works in us and helps us reflect and meditate on the story of Jesus we might grow in wisdom and love, live lives of goodne...

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