What You Do With What You Have
Everyday millions of people make extraordinary efforts under constraints of time, resources, or limited know how. Their achievements are all the more laudable precisely because they lack the advantages of abundance to work with. In this sermon Fr. Garrett invites listeners to pay attention to who they most identify with in a story about three people who are given varying allotments to work with and later called to account for what they did with them (Matthew 25:14-30). When we make meaning from stories like this one, we sometimes look for ways to align its voice with the situations of our lives. Wise is the person who is aware of the difference between asking a story to speak to them on its own terms and using their own biases to frame the meaning of the story.