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SUNDAY, October 11 19 Pentecost
Amos 5:6-7, 10-15. Seek the LORD and live.
The city of Nahalal, a farming community established in Palestine in 1921, was laid out in concentric circles. Its founders envisioned community buildings--to be shared--at the center, with other resources and residences forming rings around that center.
Most cities--and most lives--cannot be laid out so neatly in advance. Our lives develop not according to a plan, but largely in reaction to the circumstances and people we encounter. Most of us say we would love to place God at the center of our lives, but our lives have already developed so unevenly that it seems impossible to find the center, much less put God there.
And yet, it still changes, deepens, and gives significance to life when, even in a moment, we "seek the Lord and live." In our flawed human development, the circle with God at the center seems a distant, even impossible, memory. But God asks only what we can give at the moment. With mercy, compassion, forgiveness, and--thanks to the incarnation--understanding of what it is to be human, God continues to invite us.
Every day, God invites us to the center and offers an opportunity to "seek the Lord and live."
PRAY for the Diocese of Tanga (Tanzania)
Ps 22: 1-15 and Job 23: 1-9, 16-17 –OR– Ps 90:12-17 and Amos 5:6-7, 10-15; Hebrews 4:12-16; Mark 10:17-31
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so much "God" centered at all. I will miss all those at the parish I left, however, this new challenge, new journey...I welcome. Thanks be to God.