June 11, 2023 – A

Jesus raised the dead
and left the dead to bury the dead.

He forgave a guilty woman
and cursed an innocent fig tree.

He forbade praying on street corners
and said, "Let your light shine before others."

He said, "Do unto others as you would have them
do unto you,"
and told a parable about a land owner
paying his workers the same wage
for different hours of work.
And another one about the wise bridesmaids
saying, to the foolish bridesmaids,
"We didn't take you to raise! 
Go get your own lamp oil back in town!"

He said, "Do not think I have come 
to set aside the law and the prophets,"
and, "You have heard it said,
but I say unto you."

From all of this,
I can easily conclude
that truth is contradictory
and paradoxical,
and there are no formulas
or recipes for determining beforehand
what will be required by,
and necessary in,
each situation as it arises.

And that we have to "sit loose in the saddle"
and be "light on our feet,"
and quite free to do anything 
that is appropriate to the occasion,
and do the polar opposite
in the next occasion 
regardless of its similarities
to the last one.

In other words,
we don't know what we are doing
or will do next
from situation to situation.
But trust ourselves
to see what is called for
and respond appropriately
from situation to situation,
and have nothing to do with people
who insist that abortion is always wrong,
and that killing people we think need killing
is always right.

For example.

Got it?

Get with it!

And don't let being on your own stop you,
or even slow you down! 

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