GLEANINGS from the Daily Office – Sorry. I Strayed!

GLEANINGS (from the Daily Office) – Sorry. I Strayed! – Year One, Proper 28, Friday, November 20, 2015, Matthew 18:10-20

“he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.”

Too bad for you. He rejoices more over me. Of course I had to do the extraordinary for this special treatment. I strayed. As a young man I lived as if I was dying and it wasn’t for him. I excelled at being a pagan. And he came after me anyway. When he caught up the party was grand!

How was yours? Oh wait. He rejoiced more over you too! All we like lost sheep have gone astray (Isaiah 53:6). Still, he may have forgiven me more.

–Frodo: “I wish none of this had happened.” Gandalf: “So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”–