A Quick Insight
It has been a very long two days. Not much time to write about it- and I'm not even sure I'm ready to. So I went to my favorite lectionary site to see what Sarah had to say about today's lesson. It's the passage where Jesus gives his first sermon in Nazareth and says all those crazy sounding things about the scriptures being fulfilled in their very presence. Here's Sarah's take:

...small wonder folks in the synagogue were upset by Jesus' reading and midrash in the synagogue in Luke 4. Jesus claims ancient prophesies and says they have been fulfilled in our hearing, but not the prophesies we sometimes find juiciest -- the ones in which our enemies, which in our hubris we are tempted to think of as God's enemies -- get their comeuppance. The bottom line is that the Word which God spoke in Creation is the same word we hear in Jesus' ministry here, and is the same word we hear in the judgment at the climax of history, and that word is "I love you." It's the word of healing, of liberty to captives and of sight to the blind, and the first thing we blind ones will see is that it is a word for everyone. God wants that healing for everyone, and has spoken against vengeance against any of those whom God loves. That's a word of hope for all of us -- there's hope for us yet!
--Dylan's Lectionary Blog

Not much to add, except to agree that that lesson is most certainly fulfilled. I know it was today in my presence as I heard again, loud and clear, that God loves us.