Day 20: I am a work in progress

5 March, Day 20: Luke 4:24-30

I am half-way through.

Here are a few realizations that have dawned on me thus far.

• The quest for truth and joy and peace starts from within. Not at the head. But from the heart.
• The more open and accepting you are of any good principles/religious readings/positive messages, and engage with it everyday, the more it starts to play a positive role in influencing your behaviour and actions and ultimately, life
• About practice: The key is in picking up where your last left off, and moving on as per usual. 

Enough said.

The daily verse today is from Luke 4:24-32

“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.  I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”
All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this.  They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff.  But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.

Thoughts: One of the hardest to interpret verses yet, as Jesus draws from verses in the Old Testament and changes its text to provoke his audience. Pretty daring of him, considering they were already not to pleased with him challenging authority


To be contd. as this one requires some delving into.