This Sunday’s readings: John 21:1-14

Reflections

To live above with the saints we love Oh, that will be glory; but to live below with the saints we know Well, that’s another story.
~ Source Unknown

…not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
Anne Lamott, novelist

Repentance is an intimate affair. And…intimacy with anything is a terrifying prospect … I think that churches would be places of greater intimacy and growth in Christ if people stopped lying about what we need, what we fear, where we fail, and how we sin.
~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Author/Speaker

According to Jesus, acknowledging our neediness opens the door to genuine and lasting happiness. Religions usually talk about what a person has to ‘do’, but Jesus talks about what we ‘can’t do’. He says that our weakness, not our power or what we bring to God, enables us to know God.
Paul Miller, Love Walked Among Us: Learning to Love Like Jesus

I hardly, if ever, lie to myself, because it’s a lot harder work to be self-righteous if you follow Jesus, than it is to be self-aware.
Steve Brown, 1940- , Author/Speaker

He who wants more than what Christ has established, does not want Christian brotherhood. He is looking for some extraordinary social experience…. He who loves his dream of a community more than Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest & sacrificial.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), from ‘Life Together’, pastor-theologian