Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

This past week was a challenging one for some of us.  The incident at Okemos High School this past Tuesday created some real trauma within our community.  So, I am ready for some good news!  But, as I read today’s gospel, we receive words that do not appear to present us with the good news we seek.  I don’t know about you, but today I don’t really like to hear Jesus’ words. Jesus is on a tirade, and he seems to be having an outburst of some kind.  Jesus is not messing around and, quite frankly, he seems to have done an about face.  He is still preaching his Sermon on the Mount which began with the Beatitudes – those beautiful words of promise and blessing.  Then, last week he told us we are the salt of the earth and the light of the world.  And now we get this diatribe of seeming vitriol.  What has happened?  Why the dramatic change?  One could almost think he is having some sort of meltdown as he quickly jumped from telling us that we are salt and light, to this message we hear today.  Suddenly Jesus hits us