Doing Unto

Monday of the First week of Lent

Matthew 25:31-46

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I just listened to a beautiful 'pray-as-you-go' voice proclaim this reading from chapter 25 of Matthew's  Gospel
And it struck me.
This 'doing unto business'...
is completely unselfconscious!!!
It is effortless!

Now for the SO and the BUT

SO...
that is the goal.  That my 'doing unto others' becomes so born of my identification with Christ and his body that I, too, will have to ask: When did I clothe, and visit, and heal and feed...when was that?


BUT...
to get there, I will have to cultivate this deepness.
That is what disciplines are for...they get me in the mood for truth

Going deep is how we get real