Increase our faith
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” – Luke 17:5 (Proper 22C) Here’s something that used to drive my wife Lisa crazy: she’d be out doing something alone—what I mean is without three kids tagging along—not something like hanging with friends at one of those paint-and-drink-wine places that have popped up recently—but something like having a quiet, leisurely, blissful, pampering, very special solo trip to Target—and someone would ask her, “Oh, is Keith home babysitting the kids?” Lisa, being a very nice person, would simply say, “Yes,” but what she was screaming inside her head was, “No, he is NOT babysitting the kids—You don’t babysit your own kids—that’s what you pay others to do—taking care of your own kids is just parenting ! It’s what you’re supposed to do!” I think in today’s Gospel reading Jesus was possibly feeling that same frustration Lisa was. We hear him ask the Apostles, “Would you tell your slaves when they come in from the field to sit and dine...