Fleeing Babylon

End-times Spiritual Warfare

Posts filed under: Daily Scripture Reflections

  PREAMBLE Today’s Gospel is a follow-up to yesterday’s reflection on the parable of the sower.  The first thing to notice is that Jesus is not speaking to the crowds [...]
PREAMBLE Being a gardener, and having grown up on a farm, I love Jesus’ teachings in the parables about “seeds” and “soil”.  Those words and images and stories don’t  act [...]
  DON’T FORGET TO READ THE GOSPEL FIRST PREAMBLE Before anyone freaks out and sends me documentary evidence that the beetles were NOT referring to “Mary the mother of Jesus,” [...]
PREAMBLE Sometimes it is necessary to speak candidly about what’s on the horizon, otherwise we may not be prepared to deal with it properly when it comes. Especially if what [...]
Today’s readings are about shepherds and their sheep. In the reading from the Old Testament. Woe to the shepherds who mislead and scatter the flock of my pasture, says the [...]
NOTE My normal routine these days is to have an afternoon “siesta” for a couple of hours usually, get up again in the late afternoon or early evening, often work [...]