An hour left to work on Friday evening and I receive an angry phone call from a coworker in another department at the school I work at. The phone call goes from bad to worse, as we both bother not to listen to each other and proceed to argue about who was right, who was doing their job, and why the other should admit as such. A few hours later, I am still rehearsing the argument, licking my wounds, and wondering how to resolve it.

I think about going to his office next week to talk with him. But do I apologize, should I apologize when I felt I was in the right? Or does it bother me that someone is angry with me when I feel they shouldn't be? Or do I just want him to apologize? And then I think, maybe I just will tell him that I realize we had a bad exchange and that I know he had the best interest of the student at heart. Period.

What's that I hear fluttering around my ears?

Matthew 18:22

A difficult passage or just something to let us know Jesus could multiply?

The Episcopal priest and writer, Garrett Keizer, has described Jesus as "the wrath of God," a phrase I have always thought provocative because it just might be true. And, if it is true, it means we are given the grace of forgiveness that we do not deserve but couldn't live without.