Having worked at Jewish Family Service as a devout Christian, I found todays sermon refreshing! For 8 years, so many people tried to create dividing lines between our faith traditions, and in my mission of creating inclusion for families living with and supporting people with disabilities, I was always building bridges in the community to create human connections for people who so often live in isolation. Thank you for helping to resurrect an important bridge using the foundation of our faith tradition. And, the poem from the Black Rock Prayer Book touched the core of my spirit,
“The world now is too dangerous
and too beautiful for anything but love.
May your eyes be so blessed you see God in everyone...”
Thanks again for continuing to challenge us to continue to see the love in scripture.
To keep — to guard, watch over, and to attend to God’s creation and do justice — is the mandate for those who love Jesus. AND I wonder if we can't say BE RESPONSIBLE for the wording and keeping of the Commandments to be inclusive of ALL.
Thank you for this education. I never knew how inextricably intertwined Eastertide and the Ten Commandments were. And the distinction between obey and keep is one that lifted the shame of not being able to "obey" and helps me to forgive myself when I when I do not "keep" the Commandments.
On this also Holy Day of non church calendar Mother’s Day (also non commercial) my morning started with meds , coffee , scone, God , Diana ‘s beautiful inspirational writing , sweet picture of Paddy so typical of terrier behavior we have an older one in our extended family who does the same thing to his main person when he visits here . I we have seen God in so many connections this week and I am grateful for the extended community of the cottage again another thank you for starting Sunday so wonderfully . Much to ponder Love and Blessings.
The word that came to my mind in your rendering of the imperative "keep" was "protect." Like the mandate for those who are officers of the law in our communities: Serve and Protect. We protect what we love (treasure) and deem valuable, of great worth. It goes to Jesus' saying: Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Thank you for another stunning exegesis to live by.
brilliant. (i am starting to sound redundant here). but as a longtime catholic, now anglican, married for three decades to a jewish man, i find your close close read of Torah and Hebrew, and the interplay between Christianity and Judaism to be so critical and so long overdue. your willingness to name the mis-readings sharpens the point. week by week, i find myself wanting to be perched in your pews. thank you.
As usual, Rev. Bass creates wonderful food for thought. She literally transforms one's congruence with the commandments, and swaddles them in the gentle hands of Jesus.
Thank you once again. I have never heard the meaning of “keep” - not in seminary or ant sermon or Bible study - at least that I remember. Once again a single word shifts the meaning of the whole “commandment and commandments”
Amazing difference between Obey and Keep.
Thanks!
Having worked at Jewish Family Service as a devout Christian, I found todays sermon refreshing! For 8 years, so many people tried to create dividing lines between our faith traditions, and in my mission of creating inclusion for families living with and supporting people with disabilities, I was always building bridges in the community to create human connections for people who so often live in isolation. Thank you for helping to resurrect an important bridge using the foundation of our faith tradition. And, the poem from the Black Rock Prayer Book touched the core of my spirit,
“The world now is too dangerous
and too beautiful for anything but love.
May your eyes be so blessed you see God in everyone...”
Thanks again for continuing to challenge us to continue to see the love in scripture.
To keep — to guard, watch over, and to attend to God’s creation and do justice — is the mandate for those who love Jesus. AND I wonder if we can't say BE RESPONSIBLE for the wording and keeping of the Commandments to be inclusive of ALL.
I also love the First Nations version
“If you love me you will walk in my ways”
Thank you for this education. I never knew how inextricably intertwined Eastertide and the Ten Commandments were. And the distinction between obey and keep is one that lifted the shame of not being able to "obey" and helps me to forgive myself when I when I do not "keep" the Commandments.
I have never heard that distinction between obey and keep. Very helpful.
I just heard the same thing listening to sermon this morning by Ray Stedman. Love that satisfies justice. Happy Mother's Day, Diana!
Thank you for one of the best statements of our relationship to the Law. One that i will keep!
Very insightful. Could you plug in how Paul’s anti-law writings support this idea of keeping the law?
On this also Holy Day of non church calendar Mother’s Day (also non commercial) my morning started with meds , coffee , scone, God , Diana ‘s beautiful inspirational writing , sweet picture of Paddy so typical of terrier behavior we have an older one in our extended family who does the same thing to his main person when he visits here . I we have seen God in so many connections this week and I am grateful for the extended community of the cottage again another thank you for starting Sunday so wonderfully . Much to ponder Love and Blessings.
The word that came to my mind in your rendering of the imperative "keep" was "protect." Like the mandate for those who are officers of the law in our communities: Serve and Protect. We protect what we love (treasure) and deem valuable, of great worth. It goes to Jesus' saying: Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Thank you for another stunning exegesis to live by.
brilliant. (i am starting to sound redundant here). but as a longtime catholic, now anglican, married for three decades to a jewish man, i find your close close read of Torah and Hebrew, and the interplay between Christianity and Judaism to be so critical and so long overdue. your willingness to name the mis-readings sharpens the point. week by week, i find myself wanting to be perched in your pews. thank you.
As usual, Rev. Bass creates wonderful food for thought. She literally transforms one's congruence with the commandments, and swaddles them in the gentle hands of Jesus.
any sermon
Thank you once again. I have never heard the meaning of “keep” - not in seminary or ant sermon or Bible study - at least that I remember. Once again a single word shifts the meaning of the whole “commandment and commandments”