This morning, as I tried to remember the great sermon idea I had in the middle of the night, I looked ahead in the lectionary. I remembered that one of the Sundays in July was the reading where Jesus teaches us the prayer that will come to be known as The Lord's Prayer. I was happy to discover that the lectionary goes in order--before we get to that prayer, we have the Mary and Martha passage, and the Sunday before that, the Good Samaritan passage.
My New Testament teacher believes that these passages should be read together, that they speak to each other, and that's how I'd preach these texts, even if we didn't have them all together. So the lectionary is a gift to me this year.
It's also a gift to me in that July will be extremely exhausting in terms of my other work, chaplaincy training and my online English classes that I teach. I feel like the Lectionary has given me a gift with rich material that won't tax my tired brain too much--it's material I've already thought about, preached about, written about, and had classes on the texts. Hurrah!
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