To use the image “Mercy,” please visit this page at. Sometimes we need to dig in our heels and do some hollering.įor a previous reflection on this passage, click the image or title below. Either way, the story shows us that when it comes to saving what needs saving, being merely nice and pliant won’t win the day, or the life. Or perhaps he was simply in a stubborn mood and found himself facing someone who could match him easily, stubborn for stubborn. Or did he? Perhaps Jesus knew precisely what he was doing and chose to use this encounter as a teaching moment for his hearers. Reading from the Gospels, Year A, Proper 15/Ordinary 20/Pentecost +10: Matthew 15:(10-20), 21-28Ĭlearly Jesus didn’t realize who he was messing with that day. Posted in art, blessings, lectionary, Ordinary Time | 7 Comments » After clicking over to the image’s page on the Jan Richardson Images site, just scroll down to the “Purchase as an Art Print” section.) Your use of helps make the ministry of The Painted Prayerbook possible. To use the image “Streams of Mercy,” please visit this page at. Clever, creative, and fiercely devoted to those in their care, each woman displays a sacred stubbornness that will forever alter the story of the people of God.Īnd us? What, and whom, will we choose to be fierce in protecting? How will we give ourselves to help make possible the life and the freedom of another?įor a reflection on this Sunday’s Gospel reading, click the image or title below. They give themselves, often at great risk, to save the life of another. Each in her own way is bent on tracing the circle wider. There is a beautiful resonance between the story of these women and the story of the Canaanite mother whose lively exchange with Jesus we saw last week. The midwives Shiphrah and Puah, the mother of Moses, his sister, the daughter of Pharaoh: without them, no Moses, no Exodus, no freedom. The story of the Exodus begins in the hearts of the women. Reading from the Hebrew Scriptures, Year A, Proper 16/Ordinary 21/Pentecost +11: Exodus 1.8-2.10 Posted in art, blessings, lectionary, Ordinary Time | 9 Comments » ” For other uses, visit Copyright Permissions.
Please include this info in a credit line: “© Jan Richardson. All that’s needed is to acknowledge the source. Thank you!įor worship services and related settings, you are welcome to use Jan’s blessings or other words from this blog without requesting permission. To use the image “The Burning Bush,” please visit this page at. Nearly every story in the scriptures seems, in one way or another, to ask us: Will we open our eyes, our ears? What will we do with what we see, with what we hear? How will we bear the terrible delight of the blessing that blazes before us, that burns within us?įor reflections on the Gospel reading, click the image or title below. He does not turn away from the one who speaks to him and knows his name. Moses hides his face, but he does not leave. What, dear brothers and sisters, is more delightful than this voice of the Lord calling to us?ĭelightful is probably not the first word that comes to Moses’ mind on the day that he hears God calling to him from a bush that blazes but is not consumed. At Compline (night prayer) on the opening night of our retreat, we heard these words from the Prologue to the Rule of St. I have recently returned home from Minnesota, where I was on retreat at Saint John’s Abbey with wondrous folks from my community of Saint Brigid of Kildare Monastery. Reading from the Hebrew Scriptures, Year A, Proper 17/Ordinary 22/Pentecost +12: Exodus 3.1-15
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