Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen.     Parables don’t tell us what to do, or how to behave – they tell us something of the nature of God. It is important to remember this as we read the parable of the father…

Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen.     We are in Lent, and once again Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem. This is the course we saw set when he traveled down the mountain after the Transfiguration, and though much happens along…