15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) - For the Ride Home

•I was a shepherd and a dresser of sycamores. (Amos 7:14)
•Kindness and truth shall meet; justice and peace shall kiss. (Psalm 55:11)
•In love he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 1:5)
•He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick—no food, no sack, no money in their belts. (Mark 6:8)

•Is love rational? If faith reasoned or possessed?
•As you embark on a spiritual journey is there anything material that is required?
•If you help others on their spiritual search, what will help you and what will slow you down?

We live in a culture that sees having things as the measure of success. We strive for a life that sees eliminating things as the measure of internal wealth. Enoughness is a value long dead in Western society. Dependence on God is a value long lost. Yet enoughness and dependence on God may be what is lacking in a society where consumerism and accumulation have become the root diseases of a world in which everything is not enough and nothing satisfies.¹

¹Chittister, Joan, The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages, Crossroads: New York, 1993, p. 144.

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