Reflection: Sunday  5th and for the week ahead:

Scripture:

‘Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.’ (Matthew 13:52)

Reflection:

Thinking about kingdoms… Jesus talked about the ‘kingdom of heaven’ developing silently like yeast in flour, ripening like crops from seeds, waiting to be discovered like buried treasure, the perfect pearl, the pick of the fisherman’s catch. His parables all draw on everyday life, things familiar to people of any age anywhere in any time - 'what is old'. What was new to his hearers was his use of them to say that what is ‘heavenly’ is not wishful thinking about life somewhere else (up there or out there), but can be here and now. If we knead the dough, look below the surface, search for what we most long for, select only the best of what gets caught in our nets… 

David Harmsworth