“Perhaps that’s the question that Jesus gives to the crowd: ‘What are you carrying? How’s that working for you?’ And tucked within it is an invitation to carry the cross. Perhaps Jesus knows that we, as humans, don’t have a choice about carrying things. But maybe we do have a choice about what we carry.”
Lectionary Readings:
Jeremiah 18:1-11;
Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17;
Philemon 1-21;
Luke 14:25-33