Be Salt
A reflection on the readings for Epiphany 5A: Isaiah 58:1-12, Matthew 5:13-20 I woke up the other morning thinking of the word Iconic, so I decided to “Google” it, just to see what came up. Referring to iconic as something that has “cultural significance” I chuckled when I read on Wikipedia that The Christian Examiner nominated it to its list of overused words, finding over 18,000 "iconic" references in news stories alone. The third item on that Google page was a story published in the Seattle Times , titled, An Iconic Storm . The story described the experience of one woman stranded for eight hours in her car on Lake Shore Drive during the recent snow storm. I spent 23 hours of that storm in a house without electricity or heat as temperatures plunged to subzero. I was grateful my family made it home and no one I knew was stuck outside in their car. In the snow storm of 1979 I was one of those trying to get home on public transportation – a forty minute trip took me ove...