Fourth Sunday After Pentecost

Jesus’ followers are “peculiar” people. Following the path that He has blazed for you means your walk will be “out of step” with a sinful world. Jesus shakes you out of the customary ways of thinking, speaking, and “doing,” inviting us to follow Him. A journey that, unsurprisingly, goes through valleys of rejection and suffering, after all “a student is not above his teacher….it’s enough for the student to be like his teacher.” Temporal troubles are certain, but so are eternal blessings for you who are in the care of a Loving Father to whose eye is on the sparrow and to whom “even the hairs of your head are all numbered.”