This week we continue on in the Gospel of Luke, learning from Jesus’ stories and teachings about the best ways to follow in His path in our real and messy lives. This week, we come to a more famous sound byte of Jesus’: that we only need faith as small as a mustard seed and we can move mountains. We can do hard things! But He also tells this strange short story about slaves not needing thanks but just doing their duty. Is that what we are? Slaves in this life of faith? What does Jesus mean by this? But this provocative part of the Gospel does give us some helpful questions about life:
How can we give what we have to the world without resentment and depletion? How can we serve without expecting recognition, just because it is the right thing to do? How do we know when to give and when to receive service from someone else?