March 2010 – Page 5 – 300 words a day

unlikely evangelist

No one in Israel would have said that the person to follow to a rabbi would be a Samaritan woman adulteress. The only people that she would have been able to lead anywhere were people who knew her and saw what that rabbi had done for her. People in and out of church know all […]

by Jon Swanson

harvesting happens year round

Jesus is sitting on the edge of a well. His disciples are standing around him. They are holding sandwiches. He is holding forth. Do you know, he says, what fills my belly more than those sandwiches you are holding? Do you know what makes me get up in the morning, what so captivates me that […]

by Jon Swanson

good news. I’m not.

A woman runs into town. “Come and see! Come and see!” No one looks up. She’s fallen in and out of love so many times that no one much cares what she says. Her judgment about what is worth looking at is, shall we say, uncertain. “I think I might have found the Christ.” You […]

by Jon Swanson

Sometimes Jesus works in spite of his followers

Jesus and his followers are on a trip. “Rabbi, you look tired. You need something to eat. Here, sit by this well. We’ll go into that little town. It looks safe enough, for a Samaritan city. Maybe just some of us should go, and some of us should stay. No? Okay, I don’t know about […]