How long will it be before we discover we cannot dazzle God with our accomplishments? When will we acknowledge that we need not and cannot buy God’s favor? Grace = amazingly undeserved status/favor!!!
Confession undoes the chokehold of pride…. The letter of James counsels us to confess our sins to one another. This salutary practice aims to guide us in accepting ownership of our ragamuffin status.
The Evil one is the great Illusionist… Satan…clothes trivia with glitter and seduces us away from what is real. He causes us to live in a world of delusion , unreality, and shadows.
I turn away from God, the community, and myself. I become a man obsessed by illusion, a man of false power and fearful weakness, unable to think, act, or love. Ragamuffin’s Remedy = GOSPEL
In his own Gospel, he always refers to himself as “Matthew the publican,” never wanting to forget who he was and always wanting to remember how low Jesus stooped to pick him up.
The pro-life position is a seamless garment of reverence for the unborn and the age-worn, for the enemy, the Jew, and the quality of life of all people. Love the Seen and Unseen.
