
A reflection on Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9 and Matthew 5:17-19
Wednesday of the Third Week in Lent
ยฉ๏ธ2026 Gloria M. Chang
Jesus fulfills the lawโnot abolishing, but embodying God’s Torah as wisdom, life, and love.… Read the rest

Journey to Wholeness

Jesus fulfills the lawโnot abolishing, but embodying God’s Torah as wisdom, life, and love.… Read the rest

Shabbat Shalom: Jesus heals a man with the withered hand, revealing the Sabbath as a day of wholeness and restoration.
… Read the restAgain he entered the synagogue.

In the age to come, every longing heart will be drawn irresistibly upwardโstreaming toward the radiant mountain of the Lord, where Torah shines forth as light and healing to all nations.… Read the rest

… Read the restR. Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.
I rejoiced because they said to me,
“We will go up to the house of the LORD.”

The path to peace leads to final restoration (shalom)โyet it is only reached through millennia of personal, communal, and cosmic growing pains in Godโs unfolding creation.… Read the rest

In the fiercest persecution, no power on earth can destroy our immortal strands.
… Read the restJesus said to the crowd: “They will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before kings and governors because of my name.

In our collective journey to wholeness, may our Prayer for Jerusalem breathe life into dry bones and fulfill Godโs promise of restoration.… Read the rest

… Read the restAsked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he said in reply, โThe coming of the kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, โLook, here it is,โ or, โThere it is.โ For

How does a Samaritanโs thank you reveal the power of gratitude in faith?
… Read the restAs he continued his journey to Jerusalem, he traveled through Samaria and Galilee.

What does it mean to love beyond consanguinity and place Christ above all earthly ties?
… Read the restGreat crowds were traveling with him, and he turned and addressed them, โIf any one comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.