Pentecost +8 – Year AMatthew 11:16-19, 25-30I not only like it when
things go as I expect, I demand that they do. Elseways I am not able to
keep my entitlement quotient where I am comfortable.Outcomes be hanged,
I am only interested in having intentions with plausible deniability.
This keeps my ability to demand in good shape from having been
exercised so much.So let us give thanks for all those times when
everyone is wrong in their anticipation of being justified. There is an
opening here giving hope that we might yet rest from living out of
speculation and appreciate actual deeds all the more.When not trapped
in our own speculative expectation, or those of others, we find a
reenergizing that comes with dropping that huge burden.The burden of
expectation is not easily identifiable as either being present or a
burden. It is simply the water in which we swim. One way of looking at
how Jesus was able to be so connected with G*D is his ability to not
get caught in the usual expectations with which our cultures surround
us. Be freed from expectations and vision is cleared to be able
experience the presence of G*D.

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Posted By Wesley White to Kairos CoMotion Lectionary Dialogue at
6/30/2008 09:07:00 AM