Today’s reading is Luke 15: 1-32, familiar stories about things that were lost and found.
The readings I’m using for these posts are based, you may remember, on the book of Lent readings by John Pritchard called “The Journey”, my own reading for Lent.
I’m grateful to John Pritchard for the title of today’s post and for the two quotes that follow.
“Deep down I know what Jesus meant. He meant that all our little calculations, our trivial attempts at spiritual accountancy, our doing good and trying to deserve God’s love, all of this was redundant in the light of the reckless, outrageous love God has for every single human being. All of us wear the smudge and stain of messy lives, and our little spiritual games simply break in pieces in the face of God’s liberating passion for forgiving us and letting us flourish.”
The Journey, p 51
And another:
“I suppose grace is always offensive: we find such generosity hard to believe; we find it hard to accept that God doesn’t put people into boxes like we do – older son or younger son, saint or sinner, publican or Pharisee, Jew or Gentile. God’s love is all-inclusive, not either/or.”
The Journey, p 51
Pilgrim Traveller 