Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Matthew 18:12-14

Honestly, I got nothin' today. I've been trying to write something, and I got nothin'. Not even a g for the end of nothin'.

I'm going to try this one again tomorrow morning.

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Tomorrow Morning:

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So, I've been thinking about the other 99 sheep. How did they get home? Of course, the simple answer is: together.

For all this was belated, I think it's still going to be pretty simple and brief, but, well, there's a beautiful idea here: that we are responsible for getting each other safely home - so that God can be searching for the lost and forsaken. We who have been blessed with faith - with the Word of God to explain all the things everyone else spends so much time and energy trying to find their own words for - can find our way. We know.

We know the way home. So we get each other there. It's not 99 miracles that we all made it, it's one miracle. One miracle, that we made happen together.

Perhaps that's why I love Erin's theory behind the Feeding of the 5,000 so much - that the 5,000 people had their food and ate it and shared it, and that was the miracle. Then with the 4,000 feeding, Jesus saved the actually lost. We who have food need the inspiration to share it, not miracle food provided.

We who have been blessed to be in the flock and never climb the lost, rocky paths alone know the way home. Jesus shows us how to find the way. We know how to get home. So we get each other there.