The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost - 27 June 2010
The Readings for The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 8) I Kings 19:15-16, 19-21 Psalm 16 Galatians 5:1,13-25 Saint Luke 9:51-62 Elijah and Elisha BACKGROUND When does God move into our lives with a call for action? Where and when does that happen? In the readings for today we meet several who are called for just such service – prophets, kings, disciples, and others. The wonder of this is where such a call to service happens. Although Isaiah is called to service with a vision of God in a temple filled with glory and smoke, Elisha has a prophet’s cloak thrown over his shoulders in the middle of a muddy field, and Jesus sees his on-going call as he travels with his disciples. Perhaps, as we read through these lessons, and study their import, we can mull over the call that God is giving to us here and now. Where will you be sent, a