Category Archives: Geoff Wood Blog

Who’s asleep here? In the Hebrew Bible we hear the psalm writers of Israel during extremely difficult times calling out:  Awake!  Why do you sleep, O Lord?  Rise up! . . . Why do you hide your face; why do … Continue reading →

The sower went out to sow . . . Obviously today’s parable about a farmer sowing seed is about more than a farmer sowing seed.  It’s about you yourself taking root and growing up!  Note, too (in harmony with our … Continue reading →

He could see two ways ahead of him, and this appalled him, because hitherto he had never seen more than one straight line.  Javert in Les Misérables The movable feast day of Corpus Christi (the Eucharist) takes over this Sunday, … Continue reading →

Good Things Come in Threes Why does the number three keep popping up within the long history of our culture?  As children we sang of the three blind mice, listened to tales about three little pigs and the three bears, … Continue reading →

“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” (Strother Martin in the role of prison warden in Cool Hand Luke) Many biblical scholars link today’s first reading account of the Pentecost event to the Hebrew Bible’s account about the Tower … Continue reading →

The Lord created me the beginning of his works, before all else . . . Alone I was fashioned in times long past.  (about Lady Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs, chapter 8) Imagine a story in which a young … Continue reading →

Like a shot off a shovel Today’s readings (the 2nd and the Gospel) are all about love: This is my command: Love each other.  The ten commandments make at least minimal love easier to define when they tell us not … Continue reading →

This is how we set our hearts at rest . . . God is greater than our hearts. In the 1977 film High Anxiety Mel Brooks, in the role of eminent psychiatrist Richard Harpo Thorndyke, suffers from high anxiety – … Continue reading →

La Dolce Speranza On April 17th, 1906 the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso landed at the Embarcadero in San Francisco.  He was booked to play the role of Don Jose that very evening in the opera Carmen.  The welcoming caravan conveyed … Continue reading →

From Easter to Pentecost: a Season for reading Acts The Acts of the Apostles (the story of the early Church after Jesus’ farewell) reads like a Hollywood production.   The story advances from one crisis to another, here, there and everywhere … Continue reading →