September 8 2013
Proper 18C
The Rev. Kate Ekrem
Once when I was in
seminary, I signed up for a course that was oversubscribed. There were too many
people who wanted to take it. So, instead of taking the first 20 students who
signed up or something like that, the professor had us all show up to the first
class. Then she started giving us an overview of the class. How much reading,
how many papers, how complicated the material was going to be, how she wasn’t
going to spoon feed us and on and on. About half the people dropped the class
after hearing all that, and then we were down to the right size. It was the best course I took in seminary,
well worth all the work.
It seems like Jesus is a little bit
like that professor in today’s Gospel.
