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Husbands and Wives

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You have to love the big picture… but what’s the old saying, “the devil is in the details.” The mission of the corporate executive is to reposition the company to face an evolving and changing landscape for their business – all very exciting. But the plan includes forced early retirements, restructuring, and moving work overseas. The Normandy landings in 1943 were necessary and a key first step to ending World War II, but someone has to be in the first wave at Omaha Beach. Continue reading →

When no one is watching

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Today’s first reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians. If one step’s back for “the big picture” the letter deals, however, not so much with a congregation in the city of Ephesus in Asia Minor as with the worldwide church, the head of which is Christ (Eph 4:15), the purpose of which is to be the instrument for making God’s plan of salvation known throughout the universe (Eph 3:9-10). Yet this ecclesiology is anchored in God’s saving love, shown in Jesus Christ as head of the Church (Eph 2:4-10), and the whole of redemption is rooted in the plan and accomplishment of the triune God (Eph 1:3-14). Continue reading →