8/18/2024 Care-ful Living

Be careful.

This is what we say to people we love when we think they might be in a risky situation - a friend meeting a blind date for the first time, a teenager driver leaving the house to meet friends on a Friday night, or a child climbing on playground equipment. We care about the people we love, and we want them to be okay.

"Be careful" is the opening phrase in this Sunday's lectionary reading from Ephesians, and there's a sense that's there love behind this caution as well. As people of faith, we are to be careful (though not fearful) in how we live.