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Reconnecting the Grace-full Body: Treasures in Heaven and T-Shirts on Earth (Matthew 6:21-34)

  Ordinary Time 21  Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22  “The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.  23  But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how terrible that darkness will be!  24  No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be loyal to the one and have contempt for the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. 25  “Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes?  26  Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than they are?  27  Who among you by worrying can add a single moment to your life?  28  And why do you worry about clothes? N

Reconnecting the Grace-full Body: Streets of Gold Need More than Wax (Revelation 21:10-21)

  Ordinary Time He took me in a Spirit-inspired trance to a great, high mountain, and he showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.  11  The city had God’s glory. Its brilliance was like a priceless jewel, like jasper that was as clear as crystal.  12  It had a great high wall with twelve gates. By the gates were twelve angels, and on the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel’s sons.  13  There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.  14  The city wall had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the Lamb’s twelve apostles. 15  The angel who spoke to me had a gold measuring rod with which to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.  16  Now the city was laid out as a square. Its length was the same as its width. He measured the city with the rod, and it was fifteen hundred miles. Its length and width and height were equal.  17  He also measured t