Slightly Distorted

I own a pair of expensive prescription sunglasses (above) that aren’t quite right. I can’t tell you exactly how they’re wrong, but the lenses seem to ever so slightly distort my periphery, and, if I wear them long enough, give me headaches.

Conscience is a lens; the lens through which we perceive reality. We can see in Scripture three ways an otherwise healthy conscience can be distorted, or bent: inward, outward, and if far enough in either direction, shattered.

This week’s Gospel reading—a story of Mary, Martha, Messiah, and manipulation—is a case study in how a conscience slightly distorted reveals itself in the warp and woof of life.

See you Sunday.

Steve+