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I was at Mazzuchelli the other day talking to an eighth grade class and a young lady asked me this question, “do bad things happen to people as a punishment for their sins?” It was an insightful question, but because we were running out of time, I gave the simple answer. I told her and the rest of the class no, we do not believe bad things happen as a punishment, as tempting as it may be to think that. 

Today we celebrate the Transfiguration.  I find it somewhat difficult to preach on the Transfiguration, it always comes up on this second Sunday of Lent, but it has its own Feast Day, August 6th.  So twice a year, and whenever I set out to preach on it, I wonder, “what can I say that I haven’t already said?  That my people haven’t already heard…”

So Jesus is in the desert for 40 days, eating nothing, and obviously at the end of that, “he was hungry” so it makes sense that the first temptation that the devil throws at Him is to use his power as the Son of God to make food, to make bread out of stones.

A few years ago my siblings and I planted some fruit trees at my parents house.  We grew up on a small 10 acre farm, so we have plenty of room for fruit trees, and we planted three apple trees.