Lured by Love
First reading of today's Mass Hosea 2:16;17-18,21,22 It is the Lord who speaks: I am going to lure her and lead her out into the wilderness and speak to her heart. I am going to give her back her vineyards, and make the Valley of Achor a gateway of hope. There she will respond to me as she did when she was young, as she did when she came out of the land of Egypt. When that day comes – it is the Lord who speaks – she will call me, ‘My husband’, no longer will she call me, ‘My Baal.’ I will betroth you to myself for ever, betroth you with integrity and justice, with tenderness and love; I will betroth you to myself with faithfulness, and you will come to know the Lord. The imperative of the Mission in Mark's Gospel has been having it's effect on me. When we first began studying Mark in our scripture group we chose some words to fit - hard work, mission, sacrifice, movement, vision; words that demanded a lot from ...