Moving out

June 27, 2007

I have been moving out of my office and what a pain. Things can really weigh a person down. I need to find a way to live more simply.  While moving I am remebering Luke 22:35-37:

Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” 
“Nothing,” they answered.
He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”

I know, Jesus was talking to those who were going out to be missionaries, and I am a diocesan priest, who lives and works in a set community. Yet, do I need to dowgrade to let Jesus more into my life? Am I filling my life with stuff instead of letting Jesus be my fulfillment.

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