Matthew 4:8-9
"Turn to me now, while there is time. Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Don’t tear your clothing in your grief, but tear open your hearts instead."
Joel 2: 12
"Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and the death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life.
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find him, and with him everything else."
C. S. Lewis
“I imagine Lent as a great departure from the greedy, anxious anti-neighborliness of our economy, a great departure from our exclusionary politics that fears the other, a great departure from self-indulgent consumerism that devours creation.
You will find verification that God’s promises are kept among the daily performances of the trusting ones who live out their trust in ways that the world terms foolish: in the acceptance of those who are unacceptable; in the commitment of time to neighbors when we prefer to have that time for ourselves; in the telling of hard truth about the world, and that in a culture of denial; in the slant toward justice and peacemaking in a world that loves violence and exploitation too much.
Gathering God, draw us out beyond our cramped circles of care. Draw us toward the neighbor, the other, the outsider, the hurting one. May we practice compassion. Amen.”
Walter Brueggemann
It was risk on today.
Wash, rinse, rotate.
Stocks were buoyed by Jay Powell's testimony to the Congress.
Powell punch for everyone.
Gold, silver, and the Dollar as safe havens were off a bit.
All eyes are on the Ukraine, and the Non-Farm Payrolls report on Friday.
Have a pleasant evening.
