At the end of his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus reassures his listeners (and that includes us), using the metaphor of weather. If we practice the loving-kindness that Jesus models, if we calm our habitual patterns of stimulus and response, if we embrace our charge to make the world a better place, there will nevertheless be times when we fail in those efforts. However Jesus suggests that we consider those failures as rainy days or passing weather. Again the sun will shine on all of us because our efforts are based on a firm foundation. What blessed relief … to receive this gift of forgiveness again and again … as many times as there are clouds in the sky.
Namaste! Amen!
The Readings
Deuteronomy 11:18,26-28,32
Psalm 31
Romans 3
Matthew 7:21-27
‘Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord”, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day many will say to me, “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?” Then I will declare to them, “I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers.”
‘Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!’
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