Ash Wednesday A
"The wisdom in a teacup abounds, all you have to do is hold each cup with mindfulness." I read this saying in a British novel once, and it comes back to me occasionally. It reminds me of those Zen master stories where someone comes seeking wisdom from a Zen master and starts rattling on about everything they have tried or learned and what troubles they are seeing in the world, all while the master pours tea. As they ramble on, the master continues pouring tea, overflowing the cup and letting it go on the ground. Obviously the point is sometimes we are too full to be able to be filled with wisdom. I thought of this again when I was reading through the lessons for today. In Paul's second letter to the Corinthians he writes, ( 2 Cor. 6:10 NRSV) "We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see-- we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed; as ...