Stale Bread and Sour Wine
In this week’s lectionary gospel text, Jesus tells the disciples that “those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.” At first, of course, that aphorism strikes us as counterintuitive -- but as team member Dean Feldmeyer points out in this installment of The Immediate Word, it really is just common sense. Like household staples such as bread and wine, Jesus is telling us that life cannot be hoarded -- it has a limited “shelf life,” and as such needs to be used, needs to be broken, poured out, and shared with others.