Some brave blossoms have started to show up on a miniature tangerine tree that I have been nursing back to health all summer. They have a sweet scent like orange blossoms
Meditating yesterday on the healing of the ten lepers (Luke 17:11-19,) I was struck this time, not just by only one returning to thank Jesus, but that Luke bothers to point out that he was a Samaritan. He was not only one of the marginal because he was a leper but he was a foreigner.
Sunday's first reading is taken from the story of the foreigner Naaman being healed of leprosy by the prophet Elisha who lives in Samaria (2 Kings 5:1-19.) The passage highlights concern for the foreigner in the Gospel reading.
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