Sunday/Waiting

 Sunday/Waiting

Luke's gospel today is long and divided into three. The first encourages men to sell what they own and travel preaching. The other two are parables on how to manage the preparations for the arrival of God. Interestingly, the advice places man in a workplace setting, as if God was returning to a place requiring maintenance.

It's spiritual maintenance, true, but it's still a curious dichotomy.

For all its spiritual cautions and spiritual-material conflict, there is always that element in the background, also in Luke: “Which of you shall have an ox or an ass fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day?”