That's What She Said

Today’s trouble is enough for today. Well now Jesus is picking a fight with me – all his glib talk about not worrying, about being more like a daisy or a sparrow than a real live human being with real live problems – a mortgage, a boss, a gender-diverse kid in a state that’s not safe, and so much more. Why does he provoke us with this “don’t worry, be happy” talk? What kind of life is he calling us to?

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Picking a fight with “the hypocrites.” Who are they, “the hypocrites” that Jesus repeatedly says are not to be emulated? And – what is the difference between public piety vs. public witness? How easy is it to mistake religious expression for the justice God hopes we hunger for?

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Blessed are the Dumbfucks. Perhaps a reprise of a sermon from several years ago? Jesus builds his team with losers and fuckups, and the blessings just keep coming. Can he be serious? Can we?

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No time to lay low. “When Jesus heard that John had been arrested…” There are lots of ways this story could go from here. It would be smart to keep your head down, stay off the radar of the powers that be. But Jesus starts building his organization, and traveling in a pack of broken- down riffraff who love him, but can’t protect him.

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The power to get more power. The temptation of Jesus in the desert can be read many ways, but what if we read it through the lens of using power to acquire more power? What if here Jesus is already demonstrating his unwillingness to work this system, to play the odds, to win friends and market share? We can imagine that his “yes” to any of these trials would have yielded a “successful” ministry…right?

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Praying to Confess. Sometimes the mess we’re in is one of our own making, and we know it. We have to ask for help, but not without confessing that we’re reaping what we sowed. There remains a sense that, no matter how despicable or dumb we’ve been, God is ready to hear our confession and respond with kindness.

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Praying to Celebrate. A rescue from danger, a victory in battle, a recovery from illness, a reprieve from all manner of heartache – these are occasions to say out loud that, at least for today, “God is in God’s heaven and all is right with the world!” Alleluia!

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Praying to Complain. Sometimes our lived experience leads us to think God has forgotten us, or just isn’t paying attention – like we’ve been more faithful than God has been in this relationship. And, when it’s our fellow human beings who are causing our distress, we want God to hate them as much as we do. It adds to our distress to think that God might not. Prayers like this are part of sacred scripture. God is ready to hear these accusations from us.

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Praying to Cry. The typical “psalm of lament” involves a recontextualization of suffering. There is the fact of our suffering, held up alongside our trust in God – neither negates or obviates the other. Both things can be true: we suffer, and we trust in God to relieve suffering.

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Praying to Remember and Hope. We have inherited our ancestors’ experiences of God’s presence and power, and one form of prayer is a recitation of God’s faithfulness in the past. Our communal memories are not “proof,” exactly; but they are testimony of what God has already done as fuel for our hope in what God will do.

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