Samara Pitt is a longtime member of this congregation and serves on our Host Group. She also serves in significant ministries at the Indigenous Hospitality House in Carlton and at the Gembrook Retreat.
Love names, creation, joyful service and gifts for the common good can be signs of the nature and culture of God.
Like the disciples, we stumble, but we too can pick ourselves up and re-orient ourselves to the transformed landscape that Jesus is slowly mapping out for us.
Jesus and the Canaanite woman bring us along with them into a new understanding of what defiles, and what makes us clean and whole.
Temptations can hook us away from where we want to be, following Jesus, but perhaps we need them in order to discover who we are in relation to them.
When Jesus invites us to join the feast, and to invite others as well, some people need reassuring to get them in the room, while others need challenging to make space, but the invitation is there for all of us and it’s genuine.