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

I love the gospel of Luke!  One of the reasons I like this book is because the writer of Luke’s gospel is such a good storyteller.  And, I do believe that, if he was writing today, he would use multimedia to tell his story.  I think he would have used tools like satellite images, Google Earth and video to help communicate his message.  Just think about the way today’s gospel reading begins.  The imagery that comes to my mind at the beginning of this reading is one of seeing the world from the perspective of outer space.  Then, as the reading progresses it draws us down into a geographical location.  I can imagine the writer of Luke’s gospel using resources like Google Earth to gradually zoom in on the Mediterranean, then the Middle East, then the country of Israel, and finally the wilderness area by the Jordan River.    While the writer of Luke had no access to imagery of this sort, he is doing something very similar with words as he introduces the story of John the Baptist.   Placing the focus of action with