Small things

After 1 Samuel 17:26-49 

The small things

of this world are

sometimes the most

powerful things

of this world. Like

using a small, smooth

stone to fight an army

with its champion 

a taunting giant,

a giant working fear

into the hearts of

ordinary men. But

a taunting giant is

no match for one

smooth stone, cast

by a boy, the Lord’s

anointed, a boy

outraged by insults

hurled at the army

of the living God.

 

Photograph by John Salzarulo via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

God Is Our Guide on Paths We Did Not Choose – Glenna Marshall.

 

What Does a Post-Literate Culture Look Like? – O. Alan Noble at You Are Not Your Own.

 

One of These (Beatitudes) Is Not Like the Others! – Br. Patrick Bubel at The Imaginative Conservative.