Wedding Banquet of the Kingdom
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash Good and Gracious God, we pray that we will accept the invitation that you extend to us, doing your will, and loving you and our neighbor. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. With a teacher for a spouse and years of serving as a school board member, we receive a lot of invitations. I’m not certain about Muscatine, but parties for graduations arrive in stacks starting in April and continue through July. But June through August are the height of the wedding season, so those envelopes show up too. It’s not uncommon to have six or seven commitments in one day. Uffda! If that’s what was going on in today’s Gospel, we could probably understand a note being penned that offered regrets to the King, Sending along a nice gift or buying something from the wedding registry at Target or Bed Bath and Beyond also would have lessened the blow. Another possible interpretation is that accepting the invitation w...