Reflection — January 13th
“Judith, you are soaked to the skin!”
“I know, isn’t it wonderful?”
“Wonderful? You’ll catch your death! How did it happen?”
“Well, I met this amazing man, and he said..”
“Stop right there, Judith. You fool. Have you no sense? You’ve been listening to that crazy prophet, haven’t you?”
Who knows how many first century households were turned upside down by the effects of encounters with John the baptist. Ceremonial washing was nothing new but there was a proper time and place for it. John and his followers must have seemed to some to be not just foolish, but dangerously foolish. How do we
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