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Lent - Week Three 2010
By Pat Lee | March 10, 2010
Wednesday : March 10, 2010
Readings : Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13, 17-28 Matthew 21; 33-43, 45-46
Scripture Verse: The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. Matthew 21:42
Reflection : Dr. Alfred Adler, a renowned family therapist, grew up wanting to be a tailor. But early in his life, he was struck by a severe eye ailment that prevented him from seeing well enough to pursue the tailoring profession. Instead he began to use his “eyes” to gaze into the hearts, minds and spirits of patients and families and, in the process, founded a well-respected school of psychology.
In today’s reading from Genesis, Joseph, a dreamer abandoned by his brothers, used his gifts to bring his people to Egypt and begin the process of forming them into a nation. In the gospel, Jesus is the son who is killed, but in that killing, God raises him up to become the foundation of a new redeemed reconciled life for all people.
We are invited to not let our own limitations or weaknesses conquer us. Instead we are to use the gifts and talents God has given each one of us, to allow them to shape our lives as followers of Jesus.
With the psalmist we are to “remember the marvels that the Lord has done.” See Psalm 105—vs 1-5
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