Could you please pass the salt?

Sermon reflecting on the "salt of the earth" and what that means:

Where do we encounter the kind of salt that Jesus is talking about, that salt of welcome and friendship and life? Where do you know salt in your own life? Maybe it was the whiff of salt in the air along New York's East River Thursday morning, as the tide pushed in from the sea, but what I thought of first was the salt within us. The taste of salt in the tears my eyes were making in the cold wind, but also the taste of salt in blood and sweat. And the connection with the sea isn't trivial - sea water has a lot to do with the composition of the blood in our veins. The salt within us is indeed about life, for it reflects our evolutionary history, and our origins in a salty sea.
http://day1.org/1615-the_most_rev_katharine_jefferts_schori_being_salt_in_the_world

Icon

A lovely icon of KJS can be seen at this church in Los Angeles:http://www.holynativityparish.org/abouthn.htm

2010 Unofficial KJS Calendar

I made up a KJS 2010 calendar using some of the photos and quotes featured on this page. It a very simple layout: One pic and one quote a month, and the calendar is just the dates, just plain numbers (no holidays noted, etc). You can have one- just let me know I will email one to you. It is in a PDF format, and will be sent by Toobigforemail.com- a free program I use to send big files. This calandar is totally free, and not to be sold.

Forward Day by Day reading

SUNDAY, September 20 16 Pentecost


Mark 9:30-37. Whoever welcomes one such child...welcomes me.
Several months ago I saw a wonderful picture of Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, clad in a brightly colored chasuble and sitting on the floor in church, surrounded by children. Our presiding bishop travels extensively. She is so available that whenever she comes to a diocese, she tries to spend time with children and youth. When she comes to consecrate a new bishop, she asks to stay over Sunday and visit a small church. She strives to make the office of presiding bishop touch as many people as possible.
All too often when people are elected to high office, they lose touch with the "children"--both literal ones and figurative ones. How refreshing it is to see young children in the White House, and see our President and First Lady as mom and dad.
Jesus makes no bones about the fact that when we welcome children into our life, we welcome him. May we never be so busy that we lose touch with the children. For when we welcome them, we welcome Jesus.
PRAY for the Diocese of Southwark (Canterbury, England)
Ps 1 and Proverbs 31:10-31 –OR– Ps 54 and Wisdom of Solomon 1:16-2:1, 12-22 or Jeremiah 11:18-20; James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a

The Flying Bishop

Had to post this cool pic of her checking out the plane!

A Picture and a Quote

Things that come in different sizes and colors and shapes and body forms are all part of that incredible diversity of creation that's present below the waters where we never even see them. And the Psalms tell us that God delights in that. That creation is in some sense God's way of-- loving the world.

Worth Repeating

This an interview with Bill Moyers in 2007, as a new Presiding Bishop. She touches on science and religion, schism and homosexuality and scripture. It's lovely to listen to. A lovely montage of her installation, her posing with squid as a marine biologist, and then as a pilot of her plane, and footage of her testifying to Congress about global warming lead up to the interview.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06082007/watch2.html