Good News For Cities And Villages and Workplaces and Gas Stations - October 8, 2010

Daily Lectionary Readings for October 8, 2010
Psalm 103
Hosea 9:10-17
Acts 24:24-25:12
Luke 8:1-15

Luke 8:1-15
The passage contains one of the basic features of many good stories - folks on a journey.  Jesus spends his ministry on a journey - this is one specific journey within that larger framework.  "Soon afterwards he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God."(v.1)  It is the story of a specific journey and it gives some details about some of the folks along for the trip - the disciples as well as several women who helped provide for the needs of the group.  It generally though is the story of the larger journey, both of Jesus and hopefully for us.  We venture forth each day to our workplaces and our schools, to our recreation and our pumping of gas - to all the stuff that we have to do.  And in that journey for this day, for every day, there is opportunity.  Opportunity to, as we go through our version of cities and villages, to proclaim and bring the good news of the kingdom of God.  This bringing of the good news is not peripheral to what we really need to get done, it is the thing, finally, that brings meaning and purpose to all that we do every day of our lives.