“…While this speech has an edge – even a threat – Jesus seeks to inspire and reassure, and not to frighten, and here we note The Original Ostrich Pillow reference #1, recognizing that ridiculous device as a symbol of our culture’s commitment to its own comfort: so fully do we seek our own ease as a primary vocation, that we fail to recognize how absurd our self-centeredness appears to those who propose a different way, specifically, those who propose the way of the Cross…”
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