The Gospel challenges the idea that God sends suffering to test or challenge or strengthen us and insists that God desires only good for us. We do not have to badger God or bargain with God to give us good things.

Sometimes we need to be helped out of our rationalizations for not doing what our listening heart prompts us to do.

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), July 18, 2010

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), June 27, 2010

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), July 4, 2010

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), June 20, 2010