New and Unexpected Normal

Pendilavium, Digital print, Michael Kane Taylor, 2004 Mandorla Art Award, Austrailia

Lisa Thornton reflects on Matthew 20-20-28, where the mother of Zebedee’s sons bring them before Jesus to ask if they might sit at Jesus’ side in his kingdom.

Lisa notes Jesus’ reply that they do not know what it is they are asking. What they envision is not how things will be in his kingdom.

She talks reflects on our own “new normal” in the social distancing of Covid-19. This too is not what we were expecting. But hear her words in the audio below as she invites us to envision ways in which it might become more than what we were expecting.

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