Pentecost +8 Sunday – B
Years B
2 Samuel 7:1-14a or Jeremiah 23:1-6
Psalm 89:20-37 or Psalm 23
Ephesians 2:11-22
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
"Come away beloved/disciples," has a different feel when said by Solomon than by Jesus.
Jesus was an active prophet, not a poetic one. Particularly in Mark do we have an agenda-driven presentation speeding on.
When Jesus invites us to a deserted place it is only deserted inasmuch as he is not currently there, not that it is a desolation. A part of his teaching is to be active where you are in such a manner that such activity can be sustained for we are always dealing with desert-ion.
Sometimes we enter desolate territory only to find it wasn't, isn't, wont be. Sometimes we find such desolation visiting our routine life. Whether visiting or being visited, opportunity for "making whole" is available.
Our choice is to view desolate places as our life's joy or an impingement upon our possibilities.
= = = = = = =
a deserted place
is never so
when it is sought
desolation has a life
and rhythm of its own
not to be presumed upon
transforming strange aliens
into intimate family friends
hostility to peace
out of such journey
comes healing aplenty
for every unbidden dark valley
a desired desolate place
teems with expectation
and vast need
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