For Your Weekend: The Necessary Inconvenience

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 9:36–10:8

As a teenager, I had a job waiting tables in a local restaurant. One day, I had a large party, and as I was bringing out a tray full of drinks, I lost my balance, and the entire tray of drinks ended up spilling on one of the men seated at the table. 

Like a scene in a movie, everything happened in slow motion. The conversations across the small restaurant stopped. The man sat up straight from the shock of ice cubes falling down the back of ...