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4th Sunday in Lent 31 March
13Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom.
Saturday 30 March
11Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and brackish water? 12Can a fig tree, my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.
Friday 29 March
7For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species, 8but no one can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God.
It is a tiny nuisance microchip implanted deep within the hidden recesses of my brain.
Thursday 28 March
How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! 6And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.
Wednesday 27 March
3If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies. 4Or look at ships: though they are so large that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.
It didn’t really seem to fit anywhere else; it seldom fits anywhere comfortably. So I am just randomly tacking it on here after Parts 1 & 2. The awkward issue is $$$$.
Tuesday 26 March
3:1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
The service in which I was ordained a priest in Winnipeg, Manitoba 38 years ago serves as a fitting symbol of the shattering changes that were about to shake the church in which I and those with whom I was ordained would be called to minister.
Monday 25 March
24You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
In A Spacious Place 