honestly, how can i be calm right now
to tell you the truth, i ain't been sleeping too well The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark ! We all have riffs in our lives, places where tensions threaten to pull our lives apart, don’t we? Despite our best attempts to mends those riffs, we haven’t been able to repair the breach. So, instead, we’ve made our compromises, we’ve done what we can to just try and get along, to not let the riff grow any bigger… We all know, though, we can’t hold the tear together forever… And ain’t it just like us, folks who have decided the best we can muster, is to hold the tear together for now to hear something truly remarkable; and reply with a distracted yawn, as if we had merely heard the weather report? We hear about Jesus’ baptism, and we only start thinking about the things that need to get done it we’re going to hold the breach together today. Despite our cold hearts, though, today’s Gospel is doing everything possible to get us to sit up and listen! We h...