Greetings,
The scriptures for this week are:
1 Sam. 3:1-20; Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18; I Cor. 6:12-20; John 1:43-51.
These texts are available at http://divinity.library.vanderbilt.edu/lectionary/BEpiphany/bEpiphany2.htm
This week marks the movement away from celebratory Sundays. The pregnancy, infancy, and baptism narratives are completed. We are now moving into the hard stuff - the stuff of discipleship. We are moving from the extraordinary to the ordinary - the place where we live out most of our lives.
Bruce Epperly, at the Process and Faith Lectionary site (http://www.processandfaith.org/lectionary/YearB/2008-2009/2009-01-18.shtml) reminds us that an important aspect of the spiritual journey is cultivating awareness of God in the ordinary as well as extraordinary moments of life. What do you think?
As I continue in preperation for this coming Sunday I have shifted toward focusing on the call stories implicit in the Samuel and John texts. In both instances, although the call was certainly issued from God, it took mediators, Eli, Philip, and Jesus to frame those calls in such ways that Samuel and Nathanael could hear them.
Who has helped frame God's call on your life?
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I am teaching Willis how to do this.
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