Mary M. McGlone

Scripture for Life: The God of Israel exercises divine power through forgiving offenses. It's an amazing statement that reminds us that the power of forgiveness breaks the chain of cause and effect.

Scripture for Life: Whether or not we see it, God's grace is at work in our world. Jesus elaborates on this in the parable of the sower, telling us not to worry about what seems to be wasted, but to concentrate on the seed in good ground.

Scripture for Life: Life in the Spirit produces the kind of meekness that says, "I have much to learn," and when taken rightly and lightly, that's a supremely hopeful statement.

Scripture for Life: We are called to the kind of prophetic dedication that will lead people to know Christ's love because they have met us. Jesus said exactly that when he said, "Whoever receives you, receives me."

Scripture for Life: Jesus didn't worry about those who could — and did — take his life. Nobody and no threat could shake his integrity. His self-possession and consecration to mission were grounded in his relationship with his Father. 

Scripture for Life: Those who wish to be nourished by Christ's body and blood are called into communion with his lifestyle. Participation in his body and blood demands offering our lives as he did.

Scripture for Life: The God we know through Christianity exists as a community of overflowing love. The love we have and the love we crave are God's lure, drawing us to know and be like God, loving from the inside out.

Scripture for Life: Because Christianity is not ultimately a philosophy, a collection of dogmas, or a system of worship, we will not comprehend the good news except through becoming part of making it happen.

Scripture for Life: God's indwelling is a matter of mutuality: We must freely choose to accept Christ's invitation to union and desire to live out of the energy we call grace. As we do that, our union with Christ will infuse us with his own motivation as well.

Scripture for Life: The way, truth and life that Jesus offers is a way of being together in God's world and at home with ourselves and everything. It's an emotional, psychological, spiritual space that fits us, a realm in which we belong as precisely who we are. 

Scripture for Life: Christianity isn't a moral code or philosophy of life. It's incorporation into the Risen Christ. Christianity is defined by the metanoeo of following Christ's way and living Christ's truth.

Scripture for Life: Thomas said, "I won't believe it until I see it." He had the integrity to say, "I'm not there yet," and that was a proclamation that he wanted more faith than he had.

Scripture for Life: The story of the first Easter morning is one of sadness overshadowed by confusion. What the three disciples had in common was that they didn't flee from tragedy or mystery.

Scripture for Life: Today may be the most overwhelming day of the overwhelming holy week to come. Palm Sunday takes us step by step through Jesus' last days and then leaves us holding emptiness, seeing only death.

Scripture of Life: What would it mean to allow our eyes to be Christified? Jesus of Nazareth is no longer walking through our streets. But we do believe in his promise to remain with us until the end of time. 

Scripture for Life: What is it we most desire in life? When and how do we drink from the font of living water? How are we called to invite others to the well?

Scripture for Life: Jesus told his friends not to talk about their experience until after his resurrection. That's because in that moment they were like people who had just fallen in love; in their exuberance, they thought they understood it all clearly. 

Scripture for Life: The time has come to march into the desert with Jesus. This trek is designed to teach us to assume the power we have been given as people made in the image of God, free of the insecurity that makes us selfish, free to become the lovers we were created to be.

Scripture for Life: People who turn the other cheek are asserting their own dignity and subversively challenging despots to become more human.

Scripture for Life: Although we have no control over another's feelings, Jesus tells us that we must do what we can to create reconciliation in our social world before we think we have something to offer God.