Words have power and, strung together in sentences, they can change our lives.
Jesus used his preaching ministry to bring about conversion of mind and heart, that is, to draw us out of darkness into the light of God's grace. Reading and praying over the scriptures can be a revolutionary activity. Let's look at three sentences into today's readings that if, taken seriously, might further our individual and corporate conversion. Anyone who gives you a drink of water because you belong to Christ will not, I assure you, go without his reward. Giving someone a cup of water or a loaf of bread does not appear, on the surface, as a world-changing event.