Reflection (The readings are below, for your reference)
I love the part of today’s reading that talks about how the outsider, the Queen of the South, assumed to be the Queen of Sheba, comes to listen to the Wisdom of Solomon and observes that the Wisdom of Solomon merely points to something greater, something ineffable, something … outside our comfort zone. Only an outsider can get us there. Gracious God, let me see the folks I would normally rule out as “other” through your eyes. Open my eyes to your Wisdom.
Namaste
The Readings
Ezra 4:7, 11-24 (NRSV)
Philemon 1-25
Matthew 12:33-42
"Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person brings good things out of a good treasure, and the evil person brings evil things out of an evil treasure. I tell you, on the Day of Judgment you will have to give an account for every careless word you utter; for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, "Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you." But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth. The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and see, something greater than Jonah is here! The Queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the Wisdom of Solomon, and see, something greater than Solomon is here!
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