i don't think you even recognize the loss of control
and i don't think you even see it in yourself The holy Gospel according to St. Mark the 10th chapter ! Daylight Savings Sunday. Easily the w orst Sunday of the year! You all half -awake, half -asleep. Perfectly grumpy ! Barely here. And I want to shake you awake! Get you a little more lively. And in so doing, I prove I am a lot like James and John… …You might remember on Ash Wednesday we reviewed one of Luther’s finer theological points; God’s proper work and God’s alien work. Quickly: God’s proper work is, in love, raising and restoring us. & God’s alien work is, in love, humbling us and taking us down a peg. The reason God works in a way so foreign to God’s character is because as sinful creatures, we regularly fool ourselves into believing we are alright on our own , thank you very much. So God, in love, will come and show us otherwise , so that when we’ve been humbled we will be ready to look to God! God who’s prop...