Harden Not Your Heart
Ezekiel 33:7-9; Romans 13:8-10; Matthew 18:15-20
Commandment speaking to commandment. All commandments, their whole point and purpose 'summed up in this word, "Love your neighbour as yourself."' Not to recognize the entrance of estrangement into the life we have together with each other is to miss or ignore the entrance of estrangement into our soul. How easy it is to listen to the readings for this ordinary time and draw from them the injunction to judge and discipline. Whole Christian traditions have been based on such readings of Ezekiel…