Taking it Deeper

• What do you remember about our time together last week?
• Is there any new insight you’ve gathered during the rest of the week regarding the topic of our discussion?
• How did you experience the exercise?

We Re- Read:   Luke 16:10-15

Jesus went on to make these comments:  If you’re honest in small things, you’ll be honest in big things;  If you’re a crook in small things, you’ll be a crook in big things. If you’re not honest in small jobs, who will put you in charge of the store?  No worker can serve two bosses:  He’ll either hate the first and love the second, Or adore the first and despise the second.  You can’t serve both God and the Bank.

When the Pharisees, a money-obsessed bunch, heard him say these things, they rolled their eyes, dismissing him as hopelessly out of touch. So Jesus spoke to them: “You are masters at making yourselves look good in front of others, but God knows what’s behind the appearance.

“But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in – then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.”  ― Anne Lamott

“Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic – jealousy especially so – but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.”  ― Anne Lamott