About That Narrow Gate

Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod , owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

You kind of wonder about God sometimes. In today’s first reading from Genesis 13, He tells Abram all about how blessed he’s going to be and

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numerous his descendants will be. Read that in tandem with the Gospel reading today from Matthew 7 about how constricted the road to life is, and your first reaction might be, for what? Seriously,...