
Sunday Soundbite for July 18, 2021
Today’s Gospel invites us into a desert wilderness with Jesus as our shepherd and guide. Along with his disciples we’re invited to “come and rest.”
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Today’s Gospel invites us into a desert wilderness with Jesus as our shepherd and guide. Along with his disciples we’re invited to “come and rest.”

God appears to Moses in a burning bush to give him directions for the next stages of his life. God is with all of us. He leads us where he wants us to go.

As a mother of four, quiet time is in short supply. But our faith provides plenty of avenues for reflection, such as prayer and meditation.

When Moses became an adult he took the law into his own hands and became a guerilla warrior, defending his Hebrew kinsmen against the power of the Egyptians.

Everything has some meaningful connection to everything else. Everything belongs, everything matters.

Richard Rohr sometimes talks about how negative thoughts have a way of sticking to our brains like velcro, while positive thoughts have a way of slipping away like teflon.

Genesis recounted the earliest times of the Israelites’ history and their migration into Egypt. Exodus tells the story of their return to the land God had promised them.

Take a break today from the burden of the day’s news, and the cacophony of social media. In that stillness, let the soft healing of the Holy Spirit fill in those spaces where you usually find worry.

I will meditate on you. “You indeed are my savior, and in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy” (Ps 63:8).

Joseph makes his brothers promise to take his bones back to Canaan with them when the time comes for the Israelites to return from Egypt. God’s plans seem to be reaching a conclusion.