Weekly Inspiration (2/3/23)

The life, the love of Jesus is all encompassing, and therefore, all forgiving; there is space enough to falter and not be cast out. And that is space that we can offer to one another. To make ourselves a home with Jesus, we will be making room, making space, making a home for others as well. 

-Br. Todd Blackham 
Society of Saint John the Evangelist 

Poem of the Week

Now after John was arrested, 
              Jesus came to Galilee, 
              proclaiming the good news of God.
                                          —Mark 1.14

Watch the verbs:  arrested... came... proclaiming.
The face-to-face of injustice and grace
is no coincidence.
Already in Mark's fist chapter 
Jesus approaches the Cross.
The word of God's disruptive grace,
the fierce and tender love
that undermines the Empire itself
is good news for bad times.
The Word neither hides from the world's darkness,
nor succumbs to it—
the light shines in the darkness, the darkness,
and the darkness can't overcome it.
It seeks the dark, and enters, and shines.  

-Steve Garnass-Holmes