06/21/2026
Hagar, cast out and desperate in the wilderness with her dying child, discovers that God hears the cry of the forgotten, opening her eyes to a well of water and promising a future for her son. Paul declares that through baptism we have died to the old life of fear and sin and been raised to walk in newness of life, united with Christ in both death and resurrection. Jesus sends his disciples out without illusion – the way will be costly and divisive! – yet grounds their courage in the astonishing truth that not one sparrow falls without the Father’s notice, and the hairs of our heads are all counted. We are held by a God of perpetual loving-kindness, and that is enough to proclaim from the housetops.
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