Desert Reflections: The yellow brick road

Dorothy meets the Cowardly Lion, from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz first edition. [Public domain]
Jesus points out that the God is always willing to help us on our journey to him in today’s gospel.  We have only to ask, seek and knock and we will find our way to the kingdom. The journey, Fr Charlie points out, is not unlike Dorothy’s reaching out for help as she traveled the yellow brick road in theWizard of Oz.

Today’s Readings

The LORD said: “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and their sin so grave, that I must go down and see whether or not their actions fully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me. I mean to find out.”
GN 18:20-32

Even when you were dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he brought you to life along with him, having forgiven us all our transgressions.
COL 2:12-14

“I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”
LK 11:1-13