"Increase our faith" the disciples cry out (Luke 17:1-7)
When we read the news, when we struggle with health diagnoses, when we worry about the next generation growing up, we feel overwhelmed and pray, like the disciples, "Increase our faith."
In our series on What Matters, we reflect on the power of faith and our culture's need for faith to confront the challenges it faces.
Unfortunately (fortunately, really) we cannot gain faith from Jesus. Rather, we recognize that it is not about what we have or don't have, but that all Jesus has and has given to us is sufficient. And so, we get to work, invited by Jesus, to use what little faith we have to move mulberry bushes!
The artwork is "The Mulberry Tree" by Vincent Van Gogh, currently on display at the Norton Simon Museum.
