A Blazing Babe

โ€œA Blazing Babeโ€
A reflection on Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Sunday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (Year B)
ยฉ2024 Gloria M. Chang

Moses spoke to all the people, saying: “A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin; to him you shall listen.

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Peonies, Day 19

โ€œThe Eternal Tao (Panels 3 and 4)โ€
ยฉ๏ธ2020 by Gloria M. Chang

โ€œThe nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth
The named is the mother of myriad thingsโ€

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 1, translated by Derek Lin

God is both hidden and manifest (nameless and named) in relationship to spiritual creatures. … Read the rest

Beyond Contradiction

10th week in Ordinary Time, Friday

1 Kings 19:9-16, Psalm 27, Matthew 5:27-32

After a long, thunderous showdown with the prophets of Baal, ending with their destruction, Elijah was a prophet on the run from the wrath of Jezebel. The Lord listened to his complaints under a broom tree, fed him, and strengthened him for a long journey on foot to Mount Horeb.… Read the rest