In the Luke reading from next Sunday’s Lectionary, Jesus teaches a lesson that goes against the received wisdom in most walks of life. Don’t push yourself forward. Don’t go hobnobbing with the high and mighty. That might be the way of normal people – but it is not the way of the kingdom of God.
He tell the story of taking a lowly place at a wedding feast, then being asked to come up higher. This once happened to us in Botswana – I was uncomfortable because it felt like white privilege!
Driven by the sun;
wheeling air, vapour aloft,
patterns of weather.