Do you ever feel like whatever you have to give, it’s never enough? Maybe you’ve felt it in the classroom, or in a relationship, or in the face of societal challenges. Maybe you’ve even felt that way when it comes to God.

We are blessed when we obey God’s commands not because God is pleased that we jumped through his arbitrary hoops, but because God’s commands reflect reality.

30th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B) This Sunday we are given the gospel of Christ healing Bartimaeus, the blind man

28th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B) This Sunday’s gospel reading contains what I think is one of the saddest passages