Luke 17

I've had this one on hold for quite awhile now.

I don't know if I've been waiting for something profound to say about it,
or if I've moved a little too far away from God
to where I'm not "in the mood" as often,
or what.
But even after a month I've nothing to write about.
(and I'm not gonna go find something someone else said to "fill in the blank".)
so,
nice weather?

Luk 17:5
And the apostles said to the Lord,
Give us more faith.
Luk 17:6
And the Lord said,
If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed,
you might say to this sycamine tree,
Be rooted up and be planted in the sea!
And it would obey you.

hmmm...
Have there been a lot of sycamine trees planted in the sea since then?
Has anyone heard of ANY tree-moving going on since then?

I was tempted to say something about how we still got sycamine trees,
so maybe we just didn't get the message.
but now that I think about it,
I don't know where any sycamine trees are.
I've never heard of sycamine trees.

So maybe they all got re-planted by the faithful.

I don't think he was literally talking about trees or seas,
but
I don't think I've caught on to what he DID mean, either.

Could normal everyday people
have the same influence over the physical world that Jesus did?

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The pope just died.

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The world has a new one now.
(Benedict, is it?)

Anyway,
I can't help but think back to the time right before he died.
Weren't people praying all over the world?
Faithful people?

Even if only one out of a hundred Catholics was really praying,
And even if only one in a hundred of those
was really good at it.
and one out of those hundred
were in spiritual alignment,

That's still over a thousand super-prayers.

Did it make any difference?
What was the effect
of all that praying?

I don't really understand prayer.

Luk 17:27
They ate, they drank,
they married wives, they were given in marriage,
until the day that Noah entered into the ark;
and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:28
So also as it was in the days of Lot:
they ate, they drank,
they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
Luk 17:29
but the day Lot went out of Sodom,
it rained fire and brimstone from the heaven
and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:30
Even so it shall be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

I eat,
I drink,
I'm married.
I buy, sell, plant, build.

If I'm understanding these verses;
straight-up from Jesus:
Just like the wipe-out in Noah's day,
and the wipe-out that Lot escaped,
we are gonna go through it again.

wipe-out.

I hope I'm already gone.
.