Here we are: Ordinary Time. Green stretches out before us for months and months….how will you be heading into this season? Starting out by considering what an earthly king looks like? Attempting to heed Paul’s call not to lose heart? Contemplating the divided kingdom and just who ARE Jesus’ family after all? Or perhaps opening the season with thanks and praise?
Or are you on a summer series that takes you away from the lectionary?
Whatever your plans, however formed or unformed, drop in for some conversation. Let the creativity flow!
I’m just starting to gather my thoughts a bit, but I’m leaning toward some sort of link between the 1 Samuel text and the gospel. There seem to be some interesting links there that suggest that God’s ways are not our ways and that we should try to explore some new and different ways of life and living because of that. What does this mean for us?
Liturgically… hmmm. I don’t really know where to go with this theme quite yet! Is this a moment for something so liturgically strange? I doubt it… but maybe it just needs some good solid yet traditional words to help ground us in the world of God and not the word of humanity.