April 28, 2020

Daily Lectionary Readings for Year A

I am thinking of all the advice I have received over the years:  Watch the ball hit the bat.  Measure twice, cut once.  Mind your manners.  Wear clean underwear.  Drive to the wall (swimming, not driving, reference).  I remember on the day of my ordination my good friend Doug Vernon wisely advised me to "just love everybody."  There is a lot of advice in today's readings.  

• "[Receive] instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it."  
• "Lay aside immaturity and live, and walk in the way of insight."  
• "Rid yourselves of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander."  
• "Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation."  

What's the best advice you ever received?  What's the most difficult advice someone has offered to you?  Knowing what you know now, what advice would you give to your younger self, or to someone who seeks your counsel?

Peace,
Dean