Sunday, September 29, 2019


Proper 22C / Ordinary 27C / Pentecost +17
October 
6, 2019
"Increase our faith"


St. Luke 17:5-10 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)


The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” The Lord replied, “If you had faith the size of a[a] mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
“Who among you would say to your slave who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, ‘Come here at once and take your place at the table’? Would you not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, put on your apron and serve me while I eat and drink; later you may eat and drink’? Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded? 10 So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, ‘We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!’”

Footnotes:

  1. Luke 17:6 Gk faith as a grain of


Increase Our Faith

What of those who
have lost their way?
The birds of prey
taking the seed away

where winter snows
cover decaying leaves
and blizzards blow
over vacant fields.

When spring is silent
and life is snarled
and wind grows violent
and thoughts grow wild;

where is the seed
to muster growth
when faith is deceased
deep in the earth?

In such a loss,
in such a sea change,
there is only the cross
nothing else remains.

@Copyright 2019 by Kenn Storck
May be used with permission
kennstorck@gmail.com

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