Two of the roughest weeks of my life culminated in returning to the pulpit on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. Honestly, I didn’t feel like I had much to say to anyone about anything. I was exhausted both physically and emotionally. But there I was and it was time to start
putting one foot in front of the other and get back to living.
The gospel lesson for the day was Matthew 18: 21-35. It is about forgiveness. In it Peter pipes up to ask Jesus another question. How many times are we supposed to forgive someone? The clear implication is that we should
forgive them more than once. Maybe the disciples had been discussing this among themselves and finally decided to send Peter to get a definitive answer on just how many times was enough. So Peter asks how many times we should forgive. Then he throws in a…
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