Saturday – for the Green Team and for all Creation, for our ministries to Seniors, and for all on our Parish prayer list.
Today’s readings include more of Acts 17. We hear the amazing sermon of St. Paul in Athens, connecting their altar to an “unknown God” to the Lord God Almighty. It is a brilliant sermon and wonderful example of connecting the gospel to the culture it is being preached in. This portion stood out for me: 27so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him-though indeed he is not far from each one of us. 28For “In him we live and move and have our being”;”

That humans would search for God, grope for God, even if they don’t know God, and even though God is always near is a fundamental truth of our created nature.

Groping for God. Could be a reality TV show, or a way of life for us all….

On a personal note, today is a special day for my family. My older brother (I have 4 brothers), Steve, is being inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, alongside Brett Favre and Clarence Weatherspoon and others. My mother and brothers and most of their families will be present (my father is unable to travel but will watch it online). I am so grateful for my family, my brothers are amazing men and my mother – well she raised 5 boys, nuff said! Today is a tribute to my father also, he was a coach himself and instilled so many great characteristics of manhood into his boys. Steve is the all time winningest college basketball coach in the history of Mississippi, and he’s not done yet. But more than that, he is a shaper of men, you are a better person when you leave his team than when you got there. I am so proud of him, and so grateful for the family that formed all of us and continues to do so. My prayers today are of thanksgiving.