[Propertalk] Proper 12 b part 2 a

[Robert P Morrison]

Off we go again...……

	 Things seem to have an incredible way or working together to nourish
and sustain us. As the first writer on the web site told us, in Native
American Theology and Agriculture, corn, beans and squash work
together to support one another and to help each other come to full
fruit. IF they are put into the ground together, then they can work to
ensure the soil is nourished, and so on. IF Caleb’s parents and
Godparents and all of us work to ensure rich and replenished soil; if
we talk to the road worker sweating buckets over the boiling hot tar
as it’s laid on the road bed so that we’ll be able to drive down
Hill Street smoothly without having to weave around to miss the
potholes; if we interact with one another and recognise our
interdependence, then all will find encouragement, all will find hope,
all will find the recognition that each needs to grow into the full
stature of Christ as God wishes us to do. 

	 So we take another look into the basket of life which is before us.
We think about what may look like barely enough for a single meal. We
wonder how on earth we can take the rest of the summer if this heat
keeps up – and we don’t bother to think about people and property
being washed away on the East Coast; or the famine in countries around
the world; or the open warfare, the genocidal governments who have
absolutely no sense of what they’re doing because it only matters if
people look alike, and talk alike, and work alike, and die alike; if
we DON’T think beyond ourselves, we are doomed. 

	 Jesus said, “How much do you have there?” and back came the
famous reply. It doesn’t matter in the least HOW the miracle
happened. What DOES matter is that it DID happen. People, perhaps like
the women in the bulletin photo who each put a hand on the
basket-handle and walked it to their left and to their right; people,
as our baptismal covenant requires of us, people take what they have
and they share, because the dignity, the humanity, the god-like-ness
of every single other individual on this planet compels us to do this.
And, if as Italian scientists announced this week, with excitement,
that there is a vast body of water under the surface of Mars, and
there just might be some form of life there after all, no matter how
primitive; if that IS true, then our responsibility is for that life
on Mars as well, to ensure that it can grow as God intends. 

	 The baptism of Caleb didn’t stop within the walls of this room.
The charge to him and to everyone is to burst out of this room with
energy and resolve, to cross the street to the person standing or
living there, to say, I have something in the basket of life with
which God has blessed me, and, if you’d like, I’ll share it with
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