The Boy and the Man

Reflections on the Readings for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany

A few late (sorry!) notes on this week’s texts. I’m still feeling pretty awful, so prayers very much appreciated.

I see a kind of progression in these passages, a movement that begins with the boy Jeremiah facing his fear of himself—“I am only a boy!”—and culminates with Jesus, as a man, escaping a mob in his hometown that still thinks of him as a child…